{"id":156154,"date":"2025-08-18T16:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156154\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:33:12","slug":"times-square-reopening-after-suspicious-package-deemed-non-hazardous-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156154\/","title":{"rendered":"Times Square reopening after suspicious package deemed non-hazardous, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Times Square partially shut down over suspicious package <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/times-sq-suspicious-package-dc-hi-res-still.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/times-square-partially-shut-down-over-suspicious-package\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          Times Square partially shut down over suspicious package<\/p>\n<p>          01:06<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A suspicious package that was under investigation Monday in Times Square has been deemed non-hazardous, police say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The New York City Police Department shared the update around noon after evacuating part of the popular tourist destination.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said they received a call around 10:30 a.m. for a possible suspicious package at West 43rd Street and Seventh Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Investigators said they were looking for someone who dropped the package and then left.<\/p>\n<p>Chopper 2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CBSNewYork\/videos\/4123177254583433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">flew overhead<\/a>, where the NYPD Bomb Squad could be seen blocking off streets, as people were asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>Streets have started to reopen, but drivers should expect delays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check back soon for the latest updates on this developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/renee-anderson\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Renee  Anderson<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Renee Anderson is a digital producer at CBS New York, where she covers breaking news and other local stories. Before joining the team in 2016, Renee worked at WMUR-TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Times Square partially shut down over suspicious package Times Square partially shut down over suspicious package 01:06 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5249,17833,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,9307,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-156154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-midtown","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-times-square","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115050735552825440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}