NYC - Info needed on current situation in Brooklyn.

7/12/12 | Self

[NowApproachingMidnight]

Huge police and fire dept. presence, along w/ mobile command posts, explosives units, "rebreather" units, even a marine rescue unit. At least half a dozen ambulances sirening away from the vicinity.

Anyone know anything?

[CaptainK]

How do you know this? Are you in Brooklyn now?

[freedumb2003]

Justin Beeber free concert?

[Uncle Ike]

Somebody lit a cigarette while eating french fries cooked in transfats and drinking a Big Gulp??

[EQAndyBuzz]

Aw crap. Someone must have taken an eel out of Sheepshead Bay.

[Red Badger]

Someone bought a Big Gulp?.................

[Col Frank Slade]

Bloomberg sugar alert !!

[null and void]

Nothing to see here, move along...™

[thefactor]

I’m NYPD. Haven’t heard anything as of yet.

[Gay State Conservative]

An exercise,perhaps? I've run across of couple of those in Manhattan in the last few years.If it's not in the news that seems to be the most likely explanation.

[MestaMachine]

ping to self...just in case

[TurboZamboni]

16 oz.+ tea partier !

[carriage_hill]

Uh-Oh™...

(Someone had to)

[BenLurkin]

Aw nuts...right when I’m getting in the shower....

[golux]

Hmm. Sounds like a BCF (Borough Conniption Fit). Maybe one of the Barnard brownstone beavers at Ozzies on 7th inadvertently said something nice about Giuliani and had to jump in the Gowanus Canal to cleanse her spirit.

[raybbr]

You’re there and you’re asking us?

[Gator113]

Calm down, it’s nothing more than a donut sale.

[Gay State Conservative]

...and had to jump in the Gowanus Canal to cleanse her spirit.

Does the Gowanas Canal in any way resemble the East River?

[FewsOrange]

http://fortgreene.patch.com/articles/travel-advisory-a-c-trains-bypassing-jay-st-due-to-suspicious-package-report

Update, 11:38 a.m.: Police gave the all-clear after a suspicious package left at Jay St.-MetroTech station was determined not to be a threat.

All trains are now stopping at the station, resuming normal service as of 11:15 a.m., according to NYPD.

Police said the suspicious package was a bag left at the station.

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Update, 11:21 a.m.: Trains running along the R line are now also bypassing Jay St.-MetroTech station as the investigation into a suspicious package continues.

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Service at a portion of Jay St.-Borough Hall subway station [Correction: the station is Jay St.-MetroTech] was halted Thursday as police and fire officials investigated a suspicious package, according to the New York Fire Department.

The FDNY said that several people called 911 at around 10:20 a.m. to report the presence of the suspicious package in the station near Jay and Willoughby streets.

Trains along the A, C and F lines are currently bypassing the station, according to the Metropolitan Transit Authority.

[NowApproachingMidnight]

Thanks for the update!
Sigh of relief.

[super7man]

You’ve been around here for a long time.

[Hardraade]

Someone lost a new-age lightbulb.

[golux]

Buddy, when I lived on Carroll Street, the RATS wore little hazmat suits.

[bgill]

the suspicious package was a bag left at the station

And, so, what was in it?

[EinNYC]

A Canada goose they overlooked to murder?

[ken in texas]

I’ll keep you posted. But now I have to go charge my beeber so it can stune someone if necessary.

[SaraJohnson]

So now we know. It was not a big gulp or donut sale. No domestic terrorist broke loose to speak of the contitution and it Bill of Rights. It was Johnny’s back pack.

[moovova]

Zero and The Mooch out on a burger run?

[NowApproachingMidnight]

These responses are all amusing to read, and lighthearted in nature; but these issues really do make living in NYC interesting.

[Robe]

Don’t let the moose bite you in the shower .....

[moovova]

From the south here, but I like NYC a lot. Would hate to see anything else bad happen there.