Suspicious package alert closes bridge in New York
Fri May 6, 2005 10:13 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police closed the Manhattan Bridge on Friday while they investigated a suspicious package, a police spokeswoman said.
"The bridge is closed completely, it's still under investigation," the spokeswoman said.
Both subway trains and road traffic normally use the bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn, and subway services were experiencing delays as a result of the closing.
The alert came the day after two makeshift grenades exploded outside a midtown building housing the British consulate and other foreign offices, renewing fears about security in the city in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.