Too Much Coffee Give Bomb Squad the Jitters in Brooklyn Heights

Photo: MK Metz, McBrooklyn

A suspicious object was reported at the TD Bank at 211 Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights at 5:17 p.m. Wednesday (April 17).

The Emergency Services Unit, Bomb Squad, FDNY and NYPD blocked off Cadman Plaza West while they disarmed the object.

The suspicious object was discovered to be a thermos jug, an NYPD spokesperson told the Brooklyn Eagle. "It was coffee," he said.

 According to the Eagle, the bomb squad was kept busy all day yesterday, with similar incidents reported in Bay Ridge, Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx.

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