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Back to Normal in Times Sq. After Near-Miss

NEW YORK CITY-Saturday evening's failed car bombing in the crowded tourist district was followed by both an investigation and assurances from officials.

By Paul Bubny | Updated on May 02, 2010

NEW YORK CITY-Officials from the president of the Times Square Alliance to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano did their best Sunday to assure the public that Saturday’s near-miss car bomb was an isolated incident. That being said, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said at a news conference Sunday that the explosion would have caused “a significant fireball.”

Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance, says in a statement posted Sunday on the BID’s website that “Times Square and all the Broadway shows are open for business and we are not going to let this stop us from living our lives and carrying on as before. I have full faith and confidence that the NYPD will do all in their power to find who is responsible and keep us safe.” The Broadway League issued a similar business-as-usual statement. The New York Daily News reported that Mayor Michael Bloomberg was planning to take NYPD Officer Wayne Rhatigan, who sprang into action after a street vendor alerted him to smoke curling from a parked SUV, to dinner at the Blue Fin restaurant in Times Square, both to thank him and to prove that the area is safe.

Napolitano told CNN Sunday that Homeland Security was “treating it as if it could be a potential terrorist attack.” However, Napolitano also told ABC-TV’s This Week that the bomb was not a sophisticated device and that “right now, we have no evidence other than it is a one-off.”

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