A bomb-sniffing dog screens passengers Sunday at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal in lower Manhattan, where a suspicious package caused evacuation of the building. Credit: Jeff Bachner
The NYPD evacuated the Staten Island Ferry Terminal in lower Manhattan for more than an hour Sunday afternoon after a suspicious package was discovered that was later deemed safe, authorities said.
The package was found at about 2:30 p.m and the terminal was subsequently cleared, police said, stopping the free service between Manhattan and Staten Island.
But just before 4 p.m., the NYPD announced on Twitter that it had determined the package posed no threat and ferry service would continue with "slight delays."
The 200,000-square-foot terminal, on Whitehall Street, sees about 22 million passengers annually, according to its website.
Nicole Fuller is Newsday's senior criminal justice reporter. She began working at Newsday in 2012 and previously covered local government.
