HOBOKEN, NJ \u2014 A piece of World War II-era weaponry was removed from a Hoboken building affiliated with a local university on Thursday, the mayor said.<\/p>\n
Mayor Emily Jabbour released what she said was a joint statement from Hoboken’s police and fire departments, and the Stevens Institute of Technology:<\/p>\n
“During a routine inspection on the 500 block of Hudson Street, a Stevens-affiliated property, inspectors with the Hoboken Fire Department identified a World War II\u2013era ordnance.<\/p>\n
“The Hoboken Police Department, Hoboken Fire Department, and Stevens Institute of Technology coordinated, as the Jersey City Bomb Squad conducted a standard safety evaluation and ultimately removed the ordnance.”<\/p>\n
Officials said around 5 p.m. that there was no threat to public safety and the scene was cleared. <\/p>\n
A public safety spokesperson had no further comment.<\/p>\n
Thursday was an unusually busy day for first responders in Hoboken, including a death investigation and a child colliding with a car (see prior reporting below).<\/p>\n
In addition, the Hoboken police were called upon to assist the FBI with an investigation near Willow Avenue on Thursday evening. “There is no threat to the public at this time,” said a city public safety spokesperson. More details were not immediately available, but come back to Hoboken Patch<\/a> for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOBOKEN, NJ \u2014 A piece of World War II-era weaponry was removed from a Hoboken building affiliated with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-176761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176761","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=176761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}