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New York Subway Station Evacuated

   NEW YORK - Two suspicious objects that prompted an evacuation of a
   major lower Manhattan subway station during the morning commute Friday
   are not explosives, police said.

   The bomb squad cleared the items found at the Fulton Street station,
   New York Police Department Counterterrorism Chief James Waters said on
   Twitter.
   Waters posted photos of the objects, which looked like pressure cookers
   or crockpots.
   "The suspicion is that they were placed there to suggest that they were
   electronic devices and possible bombs," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on
   WCBS-AM after the all clear was given.
   The devices were found at the line that carries No. 2 and 3 trains
   around 7 a.m.
   The station is a busy transit hub a few blocks from the World Trade
   Center.
   In 2017, a would-be suicide attacker set off a homemade pipe bomb in an
   underground passageway at the Times Square subway station during rush
   hour, seriously injuring himself.

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