Coolers near track suspend LIRR service
Commuters waiit for a LIRR train at Jamaica Station. (May 9, 2011) Credit: Howard Schnapp
Service on the Long Island Railroad's Port Jefferson line was suspended between Hicksville and Huntington for about two hours Saturday night after two boxes suspected to be bombs were found near the track, officials said.
A spokesman for the MTA said the Nassau County Police Bomb Squad was called when two white coolers were spotted under the Woodbury Road overpass in Woodbury.
Officials shut down power between Hicksville and Huntington shortly after 7 p.m. while the bomb squad investigated.
Service was restored about 8:50 p.m. after police determined there was nothing dangerous in the coolers, the spokesman said.
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