By COLlive reporter
Extra security measures will be implemented in Crown Heights following a bomb threat which shook the neighborhood on Thursday.
The Jewish Children’s Museum on Eastern Parkway was evacuated Thursday morning, after someone emailed the museum to say three pipe bombs were going to imminently explode inside – the second threat in the city against a Jewish center this week, police said.
The Museum, which is located directly across the street from 770 Eastern Parkway – Lubavitch World Headquarters, was searched by the bomb squad and bomb sniffing dogs, before being declared clear at about 1:00 pm.
On Friday, NYPD Brooklyn South Chief Steven Powers called Devorah Halberstam, the Museum’s Director of Foundations and Government Services, to inform her that extra security measures will be placed at the Museum, 770 Eastern Parkway, and the entire neighborhood.
“I would like to thank the NYPD for their response, and for looking out for our community,” Halberstam told COLlive. “I am so grateful to Governor Cuomo and Mayor De Blasio for coming out in support as well,” she said.
Both Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio stopped by the scene on Thursday to lend support, promising to find the individuals who had sent the threat.
“It’s immoral, it’s unethical and it’s also illegal,” Cuomo said. “And we are going to find the people who are doing these threats.”
“The Police commissioner wants everyone in the community to know that they should feel comfortable and will be kept safe,” Halberstam said.
