I mean 7 suspicious packageĬlaims in less than a week? Seems excessive. I feel like it’s a good thing that people are vigilant but at the same time, I feel as though we’re on a paranoid streak. Honestly, I’m split about this whole incident. “Again?” he said when told of the second scare. He added, half-jokingly, “I think lost property is being returned more promptly these days.” Now they’d be more likely to do so, and we’re glad they do.” Time somebody just might ignore it and not bother calling the police. “This can be anything from an attaché case left by a pay phone, for example,” he said. Browne, the police spokesman, said that that all suspicious-package calls were checked out. Elbaz, an immigrant from Egypt who lives in Queens and was on his second day selling red velvet, Oreo, Nutella mint and ocean-sprinkled (blue-flecked white frosting) cupcakes from his Little Cupcake Lover cart, They found a gray shirt, white tube socks, a toothbrush and pens. Police officers cleared the area and brought in a bomb squad to check the bag. He said that on Thursday, there had been around 145 reports, but that he was confident they would “eventually taperĮarlier in the day, a few blocks away at 45th Street and Eighth Avenue, a cupcake vendor named Hassane Soliman Elbaz had noticed a small black duffel bag near a trash bin shortly before 9 a.m. “We typically get 90 to 100 a day, believe it not, just on a given day,” he said. Conrad/The New York Times An earlier bomb scare at Eighth Avenue and 45th Street prompted a brief evacuation before 9 a.m. Browne said that suspicious-package reports were up by about 30 percent in the city during the jittery, better-safe-than-sorry week that followed the attempted car bombing of Times Square on Saturday night.įred R. It was the day’s second suspicious-package alert and evacuation in the area. “If it happens, it’d be here,” said Bill Sykes, 44, a carpenter from Atlanta who had just finished shopping at Toys R Us and was walking up Seventh Avenue when officers herded him outside the taped-off Several minutes later, the three-block stretch of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, from 44th to 47th Streets, was reopened, and the throngs that had streaming across the sun-strewn, picnic-tabled crossroads of the worldīefore the interruption resumed their places.Īt the barricades, tourists seemed to take the latest inconvenience in stride.
So the bomb squad technicians in their astronautlike suits went to work.Īfter operating on the packages, they determined that the canvas cooler contained bottled water, and the shopping bag held books and a gift package wrapped in pink tissue paper. “The X-ray came back inconclusive on the cooler,” said Paul J. Officers from the Emergency Service Unit brought their high-tech equipment to bear. It turned out to be two packages - a green-and-white canvas cooler and a green shopping bag. | The north end of Times Square was evacuated and shut down for about 90 minutes Friday afternoon after a “suspicious package” was reported Tina Fineberg for The New York Times An unidentified police officer carrying the bags that prompted the evacuation of Times Square on Friday afternoon.
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