{"id":149155,"date":"2026-03-01T19:35:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/149155\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T19:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:35:28","slug":"unattended-bag-delays-staten-island-st-patricks-parade-day-after-iran-bombings-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/149155\/","title":{"rendered":"Unattended bag delays Staten Island St. Patrick&#8217;s parade day after Iran bombings: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unattended bag briefly delayed the start of Staten Island\u2019s St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade Sunday \u2014 as international tensions roiled in the wake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/01\/world-news\/three-us-service-members-killed-5-seriously-wounded-in-operation-epic-fury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">growing conflict with Iran.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Target bag left near the stepping-off point of the parade delayed the procession for nearly an hour, as police investigated it as a possible explosive device, reports said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38640612\" width=\"443\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-parade-delyaed-hour-nypd-122539872.jpg\" alt=\"Spectators in green attire waiting behind barriers at the Staten Island St. Patrick's Day parade.\" class=\"wp-image-38640612\"  \/>An unattended bag delayed Staten Island\u2019s St. Patty\u2019s Day parade in the wake of conflict between the US and Iran. New York Post<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38640611\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-parade-delyaed-hour-nypd-122540011.jpg\" alt=\"NYPD officers marching in the Staten Island St. Patrick's Day parade, with a banner for the Emerald Society and American and Irish flags.\" class=\"wp-image-38640611\"  \/>The parade resumed after the bag was finally accounted for. New York Post<\/p>\n<p>The bag was found at the intersection of Forest and Pelton Avenues in West Brighton, the Staten Island Advance first reported.<\/p>\n<p>The bag was later retrieved by its owner, who was jeered at by the accompanying crowd, the Advance reported.<\/p>\n<p>The threat was unfounded, according to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unattended bag briefly delayed the start of Staten Island\u2019s St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade Sunday \u2014 as international&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[62507,57,9,24,63,46080,134,136,135,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-149155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-bomb-scares","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-st-patricks-day","14":"tag-staten-island","15":"tag-staten-island-headlines","16":"tag-staten-island-news","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}