Michael Oji, a New Jersey resident who works in lower Manhattan, said he’s lived in the metro area for more than 20 years and saw the additional security that came to the area after the Sept. “We learned the hard way after 9/11, and we are prepared.” “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,” said Cuomo, a Democrat. 11 attacks served to heighten anxiety before police gave the all-clear.Ībout two hours later, a third rice cooker - the same make, year and model - was also found about 2 miles away (3 kilometers) on a sidewalk in the Chelsea neighborhood, prompting another police investigation. Dozens of suspicious packages are reported daily in New York City, but the proximity to the site of the Sept. on the mezzanine and platform of the Fulton Street station, a few blocks from the World Trade Center and New York Stock Exchange. Police swarmed the initial find around 7 a.m. Pressure cookers have been used to make bombs in the past. Andrew Cuomo had said authorities suspected the items were placed in the subway “to suggest that they were electronic devices and possible bombs.” “It is possible that somebody put out a bunch of items in the trash today and this guy picked them up and then discarded them, or it’s possible that this was an intentional act,” he said.Įarlier, Gov. Contact at #800577TIPS with info - alert a cop or call 911 if you see him. The NYPD is looking to locate and identify this individual who’s wanted for questioning in regard to the suspicious items inside the Fulton Street subway station this morning in Lower Manhattan. “But we need to know the facts behind this.”
“I would stop very short of calling him a suspect,” said John Miller, top New York Police Department counterterror official. But police emphasized that so far, it wasn’t clear whether he was trying to frighten people or merely throwing the objects away. Police were looking to talk to a man seen on surveillance video taking two of the devices, which they identified as rice cookers, out of a shopping cart and placing them in the subway station. NEW YORK - Three abandoned devices that looked like pressure cookers prompted an evacuation of a major lower Manhattan subway station and closed off an intersection in another part of town Friday morning before police determined the objects were not explosives. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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