http://www.huffingtonpost...68027.html

For the second time in less than a week New York police officers have shut down Times Square.

A suspicious package was found on 46th and Broadway around 12:45 pm today, prompting NYPD officials to clear the area.

This is at least the eighth suspicious package reported since Saturday night's failed car bomb attack.

The package reportedly resembles a "cooler or lunchbox."

More details to come...

oh no! hope all will be ok.

There will be more.
IF anything shuts down Times Square like this, this easily, people will just do it for the fun of it.

this illustrates the power of terrorism. That even if it is just a box that got misplaced the reaction to it is massive and will generate the desired affect of scaring people.

NEW YORK — Police cleared streets around Times Square on Friday after finding a cooler left on a sidewalk a block away from where where a failed car bomb was found over the weekend.

Police have created some distance between the cooler and people and are "in an abundance of caution," looking into whether the white cooler was abandoned by someone, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said.

The bomb squad was X-raying the soft-sided cooler found on the pedestrian mall and planned to determine whether it posed a threat, Browne said.

No evacuations have been ordered from buildings, but workers were told to stay indoors as the police responded.

Police cordoned off the square with yellow tape, while yelling "Get back, get back" at onlookers and guiding bomb-sniffing dogs through the area.

Cars approaching the area were told to turn back as an eerie silence descended on the area.

The package was found at 46th Street and Broadway around 1:15 p.m. in front of the Marriott Marquis Hotel, but the hotel had not been evacuated.

Three blocks around Times Square were closed as a precaution because the cooler was found about a block from where a smoking SUV and failed car bomb was found Saturday night.

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.

false alarm, it seems it was someone's lunch or something,

oh it was water bottles.
[Edited 5/7/10 11:22am]

OnlyNDaUsa said:

Thats what I thought. Jim from construction forgot his lunch

ThreadCula said:

that is just like JIM.

False alarm, but it was also reported that NYPD gets 90-100 suspicious package reports in a day. I wonder why this one was treated this way? Maybe just heightened tension in Times Square.

Mars23 said:

Paranoia sets in

Fear tactics strike ONCE AGAIN!

OnlyNDaUsa said: