New York police closed off part of Times Square in Manhattan for a short time on Friday to investigate a suspicious package that turned out to be an abandoned lunch box. A failed attempt to detonate a car bomb in Times Square on Saturday had heightened security in the most populous U.S. city. Police cordoned off several blocks of Seventh Avenue for about 90 minutes while a bomb squad member wearing a protective suit examined the white lunch box that contained a water bottle and found nothing dangerous. It did not appear that any buildings had been evacuated.
