NYPD evacuates Times Square for suspicious package. A camera grab from Times Square shows the area around W. 46th Street and Broadway cleared. An abandoned white cooler that made the crowd evacuate on the busy for an hour Friday contained only books and water bottles, police said. The report of a suspicious package – the second of the day in the tourist-heavy neighborhood – came in around 1:15 p.m. at Broadway and W. 46th St., police said. The suspicious package was found on the pedestrian mall outside the Marriott Marquis Hotel, where guests were asked to stay inside. The bomb squad X-rayed the soft-sided cooler and determined that it posed no danger, police said. With tensions still high after last weekend’s failed terror attack, the cooler left beneath a bench drew a rapid response, police said. The package was found near 45th Street and Broadway, New York Police Department officials said. Since the foiled car bomb attack last Saturday in Times Square, the number of “suspicious package” calls to the NYPD has increased. Between Sunday and Wednesday, police have checked out 493 suspicious packages, compared with 381 in the same period last year, according to Wall Street Journal. On May 1 police had found a car bomb in Times Square, that failed to explode, sparking a two-day manhunt that led to the arrest of Pakistani-born US citizen Faisal Shahzad. Update: Times Square reopens after suspicious package scare is a post from: Daily World Buzz
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Update: Times Square reopens after suspicious package scare
