UPDATE: Port Authority Reopens After Suspicious Package Scare

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - The south wing of the Port Authority bus terminal was briefly evacuated and closed due to a suspicious package, a Port Authority spokesman said in an email to Patch.

A Port Authority police canine alerted to a suspicious package wrapped in brown paper in front of McCann's inside the south wing of the Bus Terminal around 2:43 p.m., the email said.

Port Authority police deemed the package to be no threat and the terminal has since reopened.

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