{"id":354179,"date":"2026-09-23T02:18:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354179\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T02:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:18:32","slug":"suspicious-package-shuts-down-nyc-streets-near-un-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354179\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious Package Shuts Down NYC Streets Near UN General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Police closed streets to traffic and pedestrians near East 43rd Street and Third Avenue Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Sep 22, 2026 4:33 PM EDT | Updated Sep 22, 2026 4:52 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>MIDTOWN, NY \u2014 A portion of Midtown East was shut down to traffic and pedestrians on Tuesday afternoon after a &#8220;suspicious package&#8221; was discovered, New York City Police Department officials said. <\/p>\n<p>According to the NYPD, the suspicious item \u2014 which was later deemed not harmful \u2014 was found near East 43rd Street and Third Avenue at 2:57 p.m., leading to a shutdown of 42nd Street through 44th Street between 2nd Avenue and Lexington Avenue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subscribe\">\n  <a class=\"article-subscribe-link\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/midtown-nyc\/subscribe?utm_source=amp&amp;utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=mobile&amp;utm_term=subscribe_in_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Though the package was not dangerous, the closure of 43rd Street between Third Avenue and Lexington Avenue remains in effect as NYPD officers continue the investigation, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The scare comes as the United Nations General Assembly convenes leaders from around the world nearby at East 46th Street and First Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated. For questions, email Miranda.Levingston@Patch.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police closed streets to traffic and pedestrians near East 43rd Street and Third Avenue Tuesday afternoon. Sep 22,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-354179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354179","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=354179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}