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.
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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.
