Just after 9 p.m. tonight, the NYPD learned of a suspicious package at Broadway and West 47th Street but by 10 p.m., the item was properly ID'd. The NY Post reports it "was found to be just garbage, New York Police Department said. Police evacuated several blocks of midtown so the bomb squad could investigate a paper bag on top of a brown box near the Morgan Stanley building located at West 48th Street and Broadway. The package was found to be non-suspicious." The NYPD said that in the wake of the Times Square car bomb, it expected to have a spike in calls about suspicious packages (like the ham sandwich and the water cooler and books).
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