{"id":92333,"date":"2025-08-18T17:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/92333\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T17:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:15:08","slug":"times-square-reopens-after-suspicious-package-deemed-non-hazardous-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/92333\/","title":{"rendered":"Times Square reopens after suspicious package deemed non-hazardous, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Times Square partially shut down over suspicious package <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/times-sq-suspicious-package-dc-hi-res-still.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/times-square-partially-shut-down-over-suspicious-package\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          Times Square partially shut down over suspicious package<\/p>\n<p>          01:06<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Times Square was shut down Monday as the New York City Police Department investigated a possible suspicious package.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police later said the package was deemed &#8220;non-hazardous,&#8221; and streets in the area have reopened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Times Square evacuated over suspicious package<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD said police received a call around 10:30 a.m. for a possible suspicious package at West 43rd Street and Seventh Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Investigators said they were looking for someone who dropped the package and then left.  <\/p>\n<p>The NYPD Bomb Squad responded, and police evacuated part of the popular tourist destination. Streets were shut down, and people were asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>Chopper 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CBSNewYork\/videos\/4123177254583433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">flew overhead<\/a>, where the typically bustling pedestrian plaza was empty, save for law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<p>Police gave the all-clear around noon, and the area began to reopen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, for the greater good. At the end of the day, safety comes first,&#8221; tourist Kuli Dhesi said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a shame,&#8221; Long Island resident Mike Mercado said. &#8220;Times Square, all this madness is happening.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So far the person who left the package has not been identified or taken into custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/renee-anderson\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Renee  Anderson<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Renee Anderson is a digital producer at CBS New York, where she covers breaking news and other local stories. Before joining the team in 2016, Renee worked at WMUR-TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Times Square partially shut down over suspicious package Times Square partially shut down over suspicious package 01:06 Times&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,4227,34868,3,50770,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-92333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-manhattan","12":"tag-midtown","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-times-square","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}