Suspicious package sent to Robert De Niro's NYC home

[Botany]

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Source: NY Post

A suspicious package was sent to the Tribeca restaurant owned by actor Robert De Niro, police sources told The Post on Thursday.

The parcel was "the same" as those containing pipe bombs sent to prominent Democrats, including former President Obama, Hillary Clinton, along with CNN's New York bureau, the sources said.

The Tribeca Grill, along with the building next door has been evacuated.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2018/10/25/suspicious-package-sent-to-robert-de-niros-nyc-home/

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Bomb #9 to Joe Biden ... unconfirmed as of now .... philadelphia inquirer

• Law enforcement officials are at a U.S. Postal Service sorting center in Delaware, where former Vice President Joe Biden lives. There is no official word yet if the investigation is linked to a package addressed to Biden. A heavy law enforcement presence was visible Wednesday at Biden's home in Greenville, Del.

http://www2.philly.com/philly/news/pipe-bomb-robert-de-niro-joe-biden-obama-clinton-latest-updates-20181025.html

[dhol82]

1. It was actually sent to the Tribeca Film Center

It has already been retrieved and is on its way to Rodman’s Neck for inspection.

[dhol82]

2. Sorry, just heard that the building has a restaurant also.

[Botany]

5. No problems

I'm sure the story will evolve of the next few hours.

[NewJeffCT]

3. Whoever is sending these packages

is going through the list of everybody that Trump had criticized it seems.

[Sunlei]

10. at first thought a 'lone wolf', now I get the feeling this terrorism has some 'foreign gov' backing

looks to me more like a "threat" of how easy it is to mail "bad things" and is meant to sow more political division & fear in America.

[murielm99]

4. De Niro has been an outspoken critic of 45.

But I don't remember 45 saying anything about De Niro. The other bomb recipients have been bullied, called names and threatened by trump repeatedly.

Am I missing something?

[deminks]

7. Donnie called de Niro 'brain damaged'

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/12/politics/trump-punches-back-at-robert-de-niro/index.html

So, yes, de Niro made the enemies list.

[peekaloo]

12. "low IQ" Robert DeNiro?

[bucolic_frolic]

6. This is gaining momentum

and that is horrible. Yesterday I pondered whether this was part of an election strategy to change the dynamics and dialogue: energize the GOP base while allowing Trump to proclaim "law and order" to the rest of America.

Now there are more packages - Biden, DeNiro, and one in Tribecca Manhattan this morning.

It's like they're building up to something, and no one knows what it is yet.

[leftynyc]

8. The DeNiro one is the same as the Tribeca one

It was sent to the Tribeca film festival which Mr. DeNiro runs. Also - and this could be thoroughly unrelated but I just got off a Metro North train - Harlem line which is the line that services both Bedford and Chappaqua and when we were passing Crestwood station, something happened. Tons of sparks outside the train and the train rocked from side to side. We made it into Grand Central but the train was met by a team of Metro North personnel and some cops. There was also an ambulance outside Grand Central with it's lights blaring. Like I said, could be and probably is unrelated but people are jittery.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. I fear this could head in a very disadvantageous direction

If people fear polling places are not safe, they will stay home.

[leftynyc]

13. Most here are schools

Schools in NY are VERY secure. Only one entrance open and it's guarded. Mine is the fire station.

[peekaloo]

11. Can 30 Rockefeller Plaza be far behind?

home of SNL/NBC

[pioche4]

14. I sure hope Blassey Ford is protected...I've been concerned she could be a target as well.

[Botany]

15. She and her family still haven't returned to their home out of fear for their safety yet

n/t

[DonViejo]

16. Locking...

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