The NYPD bomb squad was probing a suspicious package near Gracie Mansion on Tuesday — just four days after thwarting a terror attack there, law-enforcement sources said.
Cops responded to East 86th Street near East End Avenue on the Upper East Side in Manhattan around midday after reports of a suspect container on the promenade there, law-enforcement sources said.
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The tense investigation comes after two radicalized Pennsylvania teens tried to pull off an ISIS-inspired bombing outside the mayor’s residence nearby, authorities said.
Cops responded to East 86th Street near East End Avenue around midday on reports of a suspicious Citizen App
Suspects Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, and Emir Balat, 18, are now being held at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
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Both teens claimed they were inspired to try to launch an attack by the international terror group and hoped to claim more victims than the three people killed in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, according to a five-count criminal complaint unsealed Monday.