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Post by Sapphire on May 7, 2010 12:43:13 GMT -5
www.cnn.comTimes Square has been evacuated after a suspicious package was found near 45th street and Broadway, a New York Police Department official said. The evacuation comes six days after an SUV with explosives was left in Times Square resulting in the arrest of Faisal Shahzad. This story is developing. We'll bring you the latest information as we get it.
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Post by peppermint on May 7, 2010 14:03:50 GMT -5
What is really goings on?
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Post by Sapphire on May 7, 2010 14:56:06 GMT -5
Shenanigans. and crazies. They were all false alarms. SMH.
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Parts of Times Square came to a halt twice on Friday as police investigated suspicious packages.
One suspicious package was a cooler under a table in the pedestrian mall in front of the Marriott Marquis at 46th Street and Broadway. The hotel was not evacuated.
The NYPD Bomb Squad arrived on the scene shortly after 1:30 p.m. and discovered water bottles and books when they opened it.
No buildings were evacuated, but a number of streets were closed for more than an hour.
Seventh Avenue was closed between West 48th and West 44th streets, and West 46th, West 47th and West 48th streets were closed from 6th to 8th Avenues while police investigated.
It was a smaller stretch than was closed on Saturday night, but still impacted visitors.
Henry Goldfine, an attorney from New Jersey attending a meeting at the Marriott Marquis, said he had planned to relax on the Times Square pedestrian mall but was turned away.
"Instead, I'm going back where there's no air and no light," Goldfine said, standing near the hotel. "We don't have things like this in New Jersey."
It was also the second suspicious package in the Times Square area today.
Just around 9:00 a.m., a 30-year-old vendor spotted a small black duffel bag near his cart at the northwest corner of 45th Street and Eighth Avenue, just steps from the Crossroads of the World.
The Bomb Squad investigated that package, and after 30 minutes of local street closures, the bag was deemed not suspicious.
Inside the bag, they found a gray shirt, white tube socks, a toothbrush and pens.
On an average day, police get 90 to 100 reports of a suspicious package. Since the failed car bomb attack Saturday on Times Square, that figure has risen about 30 percent.
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