Anti-Jewish threat caller using hi-tech masking
THE JEWISH Children’s Museum in Brooklyn was evacuated Thursday after staffers received an alarming email saying several pipe bombs had been hidden in the building, officials said.
Cops raced to the museum on Eastern Parkway near Kingston Ave. in Crown Heights after the email came in around 9:30 a.m., officials said.
The building was cleared and cops conducted a floor-by-floor inspection with bomb-sniffing dogs, NYPD Police Commissioner James O’Neill said.
No explosives were found, officials said. cost depends on how often (the President) comes here.”
He said Trump Tower could be “a symbolic target” for terrorists.
“That means not just the residents, but the residents around it become part of that protection package,” he said. “It’s not like the U.S. government said just do this if you can fit it in. They said we need this protection, and we’re running up a big bill for New Yorkers.”
It was not immediately clear if the email was connected to a spree of bomb threats against Jewish institutions across the country. No children were in the museum when the email threat was received.
The institution was built in memory of a Jewish teen killed by a terrorist on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994.
Museum staffers including Devorah Halberstam, the mother of murdered 16-year-old Ari Halberstam, watched as cops conducted the search.
“It’s a horrible thing that happened to us today,” Halberstam said, breaking down in tears outside the museum with Gov. Cuomo by her side. “It was only last week that it was the anniversary of (Ari’s) death. That this happened the very same week . . . is suffering. Very, very deep suffering.”