Garbage Filled Backpack Searched at Grand Central

Manhattan, New York- A suspicious package found Monday on a busy subway platform servicing Grand Central Terminal turned out to be a backpack filled with garbage, says an NYPD spokesman.

The backpack, found on the downtown platform for the Lexington Avenue Line, briefly disrupted service to No. 4, 5 and 6 subway trains, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said. Trains bypassed the Grand Central 42nd Street stop, until shortly after 10:15 a.m.

The NYPD said the suspicious package was reported in a 911 call at 9:02 a.m. and said emergency services and bomb squad officers were dispatched to investigate the find.

Responding NYPD officers searched the backpack and found garbage. The area was then cleared.