Bomb scare shuts down Brooklyn Bridge

The busy Brooklyn Bridge here was shut down after an unattended SUV was found prompting a terrorism scare that halted traffic for nearly two hours.
The entire bridge was shut down to vehicles and pedestrians yesterday after a 911 caller spotted the dark-coloured Dodge Durango, which had no license plates, sitting in the far-right Manhattan-bound lane.
An NYPD helicopter hovered overhead as the bomb squad searched the vehicle. Nothing suspicious was found, and the bridge was reopened at about 7 pm (local time), the New York Post reported.
The SUV was traced to a Pennsylvania woman, but it was unclear whether police had talked to her yet.

Earlier yesterday, another scare turned the street next to St Patrick's Cathedral in Midtown into a scene from "The Hurt Locker".
Police shut down part of East 51st Street and called in the bomb squad over in what turned out to be an innocuous backpack left near the Venezuelan Consulate in the morning.