The NYPD bomb squad was probing a suspicious package near Gracie Mansion on Tuesday and evacuated an adjacent park as a precaution — just four days after thwarting a terror attack there, law-enforcement sources said.
Cops responded to East 86th Street near East End Avenue on the Upper East Side in Manhattan around midday after reports of a suspect container on the promenade there, law-enforcement sources said.
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The nearby Carl Schurz Park was evacuated as the investigation continued. Gracie Mansion, where the mayor lives, was not evacuated, officials said.
The tense situation comes after two radicalized Pennsylvania teens tried to pull off an ISIS-inspired bombing outside the mayor’s residence nearby, authorities said.
Suspects Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, and Emir Balat, 18, are now being held at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
Here’s the latest on the bombs thrown outside Gracie Mansion
- Self-radicalized ISIS protesters used explosive called ‘Mother of Satan’ inside bombs thrown at Gracie Mansion protest: sources
- Devices hurled at Gracie Mansion protest determined to be highly dangerous IED capable of ‘serious injury or death’: NYPD
- ISIS-inspired NYC bomb throwers hoped attack would be deadlier than Boston Marathon bombing: feds
- NYC bomb attack suspects launched slew of chilling ISIS-inspired slogans and threats after their arrest
Both teens claimed they were inspired to try to launch an attack by the international terror group and hoped to claim more victims than the three people killed in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, according to a five-count criminal complaint unsealed Monday.
-Additional reporting by Carl Campanile and Estrella McDaniel
