Two abandoned objects that appeared to be pressure cookers prompted an evacuation of a major lower Manhattan subway station during the morning commute Friday before police determined they were not explosives.
The bomb squad cleared the items found at the Fulton Street station, New York Police Department Counterterrorism Chief James Waters said on Twitter.
Waters posted photos of the objects, which looked like pressure cookers or crockpots.
“The suspicion is that they were placed there to suggest that they were electronic devices and possible bombs,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on WCBS-AM.
The station is a busy transit hub a few blocks from the World Trade Center, and the proximity to the site of the Sept. 11 attacks served to heighten anxiety before the all-clear was given.
“This is a frightening world we live in, and all of these situations have to be taken seriously because God forbid one day … it’s a real device,” Cuomo said. “We learned the hard way after 9/11, and we are prepared.”
In 2017, a would-be suicide attacker set off a homemade pipe bomb in an underground passageway at the Times Square subway station during rush hour, seriously injuring himself.
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Our @NYPDCT Bomb Squad has cleared the devices inside of Fulton Street subway station in Lower Manhattan. They are NOT explosive devices.
Out of an abundance of caution officers have searched nearby stations. pic.twitter.com/Y32I9DFEDf
— NYPDCounterterrorism (@NYPDCT) August 16, 2019
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6 Responses
NYPD is too stupid to take this incident seriously. Nobody leaves pressure cookers on subway platforms unless they want to test the response of law enforcement. Someone out there somewhere is gearing up for an attack. With Dummy Deblasio as Mayor, our lives are in peril.
Someone lost the chulent
the guy they’ll catch will just say mental illness and be off the hook.
Where is our government when we need them? When our elected politicians will stand up to Cooking Appliances Lobby and impose sensitive Pressure Cookers control, Do we need another Boston Marathon bombing before they act. Ban all generous assault cooking appliances.
The MTA can’t afford to put the most up to date cameras in every subway station?
HaShem caused these pressure cookers to be there simply to keep the police occupied, so that they are too occupied to be able to harass and ticket Hatzolo members in their holy task of saving human lives.