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Police evacuated Times Square while investigating the discovery of a cooler left on a sidewalk on the same block where a failed car bomb was found over the weekend.

The bomb squad is responding to the area near 46th and Broadway to examine what appears to be a small, white cooler left on a sidewalk.

Three blocks around Times Square were closed as a precaution because the cooler was found about a block from where a smoking SUV and failed car bomb was found Saturday night.

No other details were immediately available. The call was received about 1:15 p.m.

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Police cleared streets around Times Square on Friday after finding a cooler left on a sidewalk a block away from where where a failed car bomb was found over the weekend.

Police created some distance between the cooler and people and were “in an abundance of caution,” looking into whether the white cooler was abandoned by someone, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said. Not long after, city's bomb squad said the cooler was not a threat and the streets were reopened to traffic.

The bomb squad had X-rayed the soft-sided cooler found on the pedestrian mall.

No evacuations were ordered from buildings, but workers were told to stay indoors as the police responded.

Police cordoned off the square with yellow tape, while yelling “Get back, get back” at onlookers and guiding bomb-sniffing dogs through the area.

Cars approaching the area were told to turn back as an eerie silence descended on the area.

The package was found at 46th Street and Broadway around 1:15 p.m. in front of the Marriott Marquis Hotel, but the hotel was not been evacuated.

Three blocks around Times Square were closed as a precaution because the cooler was found about a block from where a smoking sport utility vehicle and failed car bomb was found Saturday night. Streets reopened just before 2:30 p.m.

Henry Goldfine, an attorney from New Jersey attending a meeting at the Marriott Marquis, said he had planned to relax on the Times Square pedestrian mall but was turned away.

“Instead, I'm going back where there's no air and no light,” Goldfine said, standing near the hotel. “We don't have things like this in New Jersey.”

On an average day, police get 90 to 100 reports of a suspicious package. Since the failed car bomb attack Saturday on Times Square, that figure has risen about 30 per cent.
 
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