Hollywood veteran Robert De Niro's restaurant, Tribeca Grill, has become the latest target in a string of incidents which have seen prominent politicians and CNN's office receiving suspicious packages believed to be potentially dangerous.
Sources have told the New York Post that the package is "the same" as the ones sent to former United States president Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, amongst others.
Officials from the New York City Police Department (NYPD) have been pressed into action and have cordoned off the area around Greenwich and Franklin streets in Tribeca, Manhattan.
Furthermore, NYPD Commissioner James P. O'Neill said the package is being taken to a secure facility in the Bronx.
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