False Alarm on Times Square
NYPD closed off streets around Times Square after unattended van spotted outside Westin Hotel. Area re-opened to traffic after vehicle searched.
Police temporarily closed streets around New York's Times Square at lunchtime on Wednesday but soon reopened the streets when a suspicious vehicle turned out to be harmless, Reuters reported.
A minivan left unattended with its lights on outside the Westin Hotel prompted the bomb scare, police stated.
Posted by: trailing wife 2010-10-21 |