{"id":159488,"date":"2026-03-10T18:36:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159488\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T18:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:36:35","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-nypd-evacuates-manhattan-park-near-gracie-mansion-following-discovery-of-suspicious-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159488\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | NYPD evacuates Manhattan park near Gracie Mansion following discovery of &#8216;suspicious package&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD instructed parkgoers to leave Carl Schurz Park in Manhattan just after noon on Tuesday, according to News 12&#8217;s Natalie Hernandez, who was on scene.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the NYPD&#8217;s bomb squad is investigating a suspicious package that was discovered by NYC Parks workers who were cleaning the park, according to police sources.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery comes just days after an explosive was thrown near<a href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/this-was-an-isis-inspired-attack-tisch-says-device-used-in-protest-incident-was-improvised-explosive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Gracie Mansion<\/a>, just one city block away Carl Schurz Park.<\/p>\n<p>Parkgoers watched in awe as helicopters flew overhead and police put up yellow tape near the dog park. <\/p>\n<p>About eight police vehicles and an emergency services vehicle arrived within minutes. <\/p>\n<p>The park was packed with dogwalkers and pickleball players, as temperatures were higher than normal on Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD instructed parkgoers to leave Carl Schurz Park in Manhattan just after noon on Tuesday, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[37281,98,100,99,8409,9,24,63,103,65719],"class_list":{"0":"post-159488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-bomb-squad","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-gracie-mansion","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nypd","17":"tag-suspicious-packages"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159488","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=159488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}