{"id":157298,"date":"2026-03-08T22:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157298\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:31:06","slug":"police-swarm-nyc-street-sunday-amid-ied-probe-near-gracie-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157298\/","title":{"rendered":"Police swarm NYC street Sunday amid IED probe near Gracie Mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD has cordoned off a tony Manhattan block near the mayor\u2019s residence amid a continuing probe into a potential terror plot involving improvised, ISIS-style bombs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to ongoing police activity, please avoid the area of East End Avenue between 81st Street and 82nd Street in Manhattan,\u201d the NYPD wrote on X on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>According to two NYPD sources, the activity is connected to the investigation into two devices that were thrown during dueling protests outside Gracie Mansion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/nypd-confirms-improvised-explosive-device-thrown-protests-near-gracie-mansion-manhattan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NYPD CONFIRMS OBJECT THROWN AT PROTESTS NEAR GRACIE MANSION IN MANHATTAN WAS AN IED<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The activity follows hours after New York City officials confirmed that a device ignited and thrown during protests near Gracie Mansion on Saturday was an improvised explosive device (IED) capable of causing \u201cserious injury or death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The devices thrown near Gracie Mansion were allegedly charged with TATP (triacetone triperoxide), retired NYPD inspector Fox News contributor Paul Mauro told Fox News Digital, citing multiple sources.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019 CB Cotton contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD has cordoned off a tony Manhattan block near the mayor\u2019s residence amid a continuing probe into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-157298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157298","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=157298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}