Update: No Threat Found in Garden City Office Building

Originally published April 21 at 3:40 p.m.

No evidence of a threat was found after a 911 call reporting a hostage situation inside a Garden City office building on Tuesday, according to Nassau County Police.

Officials confirmed they found no threat inside 200 Garden City Plaza after a room-by-room search of the entire five-story building, which sits across the street from Roosevelt Field Mall.

Police flooded the area after an unknown person made a 911 call around 2:15 p.m. claiming there was a “threat to life” inside the building, police said. The caller claimed the threat involved the law firm of Goldberg Segalla on the building’s top floor, according to WPIX.

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Garden City Police responded and quickly summoned backup from NCPD, which brought in emergency service, canine and arson bomb squad units to conduct a search of the premises, officials said.

“We were just sitting working . . . They came to our office and said we had to leave,” lawyer Evan Cohen, 53, of Garden City, told Newsday. “The cops said you gotta get across the street.”

The entire building was evacuated for the investigation, which police said turned up no evidence of any kind of a threat. The building has since been reopened.

Police are still investigating the incident.

This is a breaking news story. Patch will update as new information is confirmed.

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