Wall Street Bomb Scare a False Alarm
NEW YORK (
) -- A suspicious box found on the corner of Wall Street and Broadway, just outside the
New York Stock Exchange
, drew a bomb-squad investigation Thursday that closed several blocks surrounding the NYSE for about an hour just after the closing bell.
But the box was a false alarm, and the all-clear was given at about 5 p.m. EDT.
No buildings were evacuated.
According to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the 4 and 5 trains of the NYC subway system were directed to bypass the Wall Street station. The MTA cautions that subway riders should expect delays on both lines.
Broadway between Liberty Street and Exchange Place was temporarily closed to traffic, as was the pedestrian-only block of Wall Street fronting the NYSE, between Broadway and Nassua.
-- Reported by Scott Eden in New York
Scott Eden has covered business -- both large and small -- for more than a decade. Prior to joining TheStreet.com, he worked as a features reporter for Dealmaker and Trader Monthly magazines. Before that, he wrote for the Chicago Reader, that city's weekly paper. Early in his career, he was a staff reporter at the Dow Jones News Service. His reporting has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Men's Journal, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, and the Believer magazine, among other publications. He's also the author of Touchdown Jesus (Simon & Schuster, 2005), a nonfiction book about Notre Dame football fans and the business and politics of big-time college sports. He has degrees from Notre Dame and Washington University in St. Louis.
