Timeline of events in New York City Times Square car bombing attempt

Timeline in NYC Times Square car bombing attempt

Timeline of events in car bomb attempt in New York City’s Times Square:

SATURDAY, May 1

— 6:28 p.m. A video surveillance camera shows a sport utility vehicle entering West 45th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue.

— 6:30 p.m. A T-shirt vendor notifies a mounted police officer of a car filling with smoke parked on the southwestern corner of West 45th Street and Broadway.

— 6:33 p.m. The officer circles the car on horseback and radios for help. Streets are closed and a perimeter is set up as people are told to clear out.

SUNDAY, May 2

— 2:20 a.m. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly hold news conference two blocks from where the SUV was discovered to announce that a potentially lethal bomb was found in the vehicle. Bloomberg calls the bomb “amateurish.”

— 3 a.m. Guests of the Marriott Hotel in rooms facing West 45th Street are allowed to return to their rooms after being evacuated hours earlier.

— 7:30 a.m. All streets reopened to pedestrian and vehicular traffic.

— 3 p.m. Kelly and FBI Special Agent in Charge George Venizelos hold news conference to announce that a videotape of a possible suspect has been obtained. Further details on the propane-and-gas bomb are disclosed.

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Source: The New York City Police Department