Crown Heights [CHI] — The entire 770 has been evacuated and all the morning regulars are congregating outside due to a suspicious package that has been mysteriously placed at the “Shalash” entrance (between old and new 770 buildings). The NYPD's bomb squad is on the way to inspect the package and determine what further steps must be taken. Update: Package determined to be harmless.
Bomb Scare at 770 [Update: Package Harmless]
Crown Heights [CHI] — The entire 770 has been evacuated and all the morning regulars are congregating outside due to a suspicious package that has been mysteriously placed at the “Shalash” entrance (between old and new 770 buildings). The NYPD’s bomb squad is on the way to inspect the package and determine what further steps must be taken. Update: Package determined to be harmless.
Update: 11:13 AM
The Police Department has now closed off Eastern Parkway from Albany Ave., all the way to New York Ave.
A bomb squad official has approached the package in a ‘HazMat’ suit to inspect it, but no physical contact has yet been made with the parcel.
The young man who discovered the suspicious item told Crownheights.info that he originally approached the Police Command Center across from the museum at 9:45 AM, and was brushed off twice. A call was made to 911 a few minutes later, and it took police over an hour to arrive at the scene.
Update: 11:27 AM
‘All clear’ signal given. Package was determined to be harmless, and people are beginning to stream back into 770.
seriously?
its friday its a mivtzaim bag
b.h no ones in the building
i hope its nothing
ruvi
now we can see who does not work for a living and davens at 11
B O B
Could be someone’s tefillin tallis bags. Lots of people from out of town carry this sort of modern tote bag. But B”H let’s not take any chances here. My lord.
mordy
its obviously someone’s mivtzoim bag
123456789
oops, there goes somebody’s forgotten tefillin or laptop or some sort of electronic device that they somehow missplaced!
its all on video
They can replay the security camera footage to see who and when dropped it off
LOL
suspicious people leave suspicious packages every 5 mins in 770
mendel
to #3 – plenty of people work upstairs from 770 and were part of the evacuation.
Outsider
It’s not a laughing matter. These packages should always be reported and not assumed to be harmless.
Dovid
Uhhhh, then 770 would never be open
an attache case without yellow pins or s
Very suspicious!
A human being...
Who cares if everything is fine……
message to police
if i put my tefilin bag there will thay think its a bomb
to #3
Many people in these pictures where at yud tes kislev farbrengens speaking about the Alter Rebbe, Chasidus, and the Eibershter for hours last night. than slept a few hours and got up for mikva, chassidus, davening. Some people even took off work Thursday and Friday to spend yud tes kislev properly. I sugest you learn about and work on the saying in Perkie Aovos ‘judge every person favorably’.Hopfuly it will bring the geula.With brochos of success.
Abba
To 14:
Probobaly not.
NYPD PSAa
For the Record, this is exactly what citizens are instructed to do all over NYC 1) “If you see something say something” 2) “never assume it was left by accident”
CIA VICE PRESIDENT
it was a laptop
me
omg never saw 770 empty they should have torn down the yechi sign…..
to #19
ditto about 770 being empty!