‘Inert’ grenade found near Holocaust Memorial Park in Brooklyn, NYC

A grenade was found near Holocaust Memorial Park in Brooklyn Saturday morning and the NYPD Bomb Squad was called in, authorities said.

The device was subsequently deemed “inert.”

Police responded to a call just before 10 a.m. regarding a “possible grenade” found at the West End Avenue public Holocaust memorial park located at the water’s edge between Emmons Avenue and Shore Boulevard in Sheepshead Bay.


The NYPD Bomb Squad determined the grenade to be inert
A man looking in the bay for odds and ends with a metal detector found the device.
Michael Dalton

It turned out that a man scouring the bay for odds and ends with a metal detector found the device and called the cops
The device was subsequently deemed “inert.”
Michael Dalton

It turned out that a man scouring the bay for odds and ends with a metal detector found the device and called the cops.

“The Bomb Squad deemed the grenade inert,” the NYPD said.

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