Happy New Year '1984' State-of-Siege
Mayor, Police Promise Tight Security For City New Year's
NEW YORK -- Police boats, helicopters, bomb squads and thousands of officers will be on patrol in Times Square and around the city on New Year's Eve, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Wednesday.
Heavily armed Hercules counter-terror teams, officers armed with radiation detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs will be in Times Square, where Secretary of State Colin Powell will press the button to start the crystal ball drop marking the new year.
Police boats will monitor Staten Island ferries, long considered a possible target for potential attack. They also will patrol around Battery Park, the Brooklyn Bridge and the United Nations, Kelly said.
The commissioner said the police department had no information about a specific threat to the city on New Year's Eve.
Still, flights will be banned below 4,000 feet from 23rd to 96th streets, he said. Some subway platforms will be closed, and plainclothes officers will be on trains and street corners.
"There's an awful lot of security that we provide that will not be visible," Bloomberg said. "You'll never know who that person sitting next to you is and that's the way it should be."
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NEW YORK -- Police boats, helicopters, bomb squads and thousands of officers will be on patrol in Times Square and around the city on New Year's Eve, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Wednesday.
Heavily armed Hercules counter-terror teams, officers armed with radiation detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs will be in Times Square, where Secretary of State Colin Powell will press the button to start the crystal ball drop marking the new year.
Police boats will monitor Staten Island ferries, long considered a possible target for potential attack. They also will patrol around Battery Park, the Brooklyn Bridge and the United Nations, Kelly said.
The commissioner said the police department had no information about a specific threat to the city on New Year's Eve.
Still, flights will be banned below 4,000 feet from 23rd to 96th streets, he said. Some subway platforms will be closed, and plainclothes officers will be on trains and street corners.
"There's an awful lot of security that we provide that will not be visible," Bloomberg said. "You'll never know who that person sitting next to you is and that's the way it should be."
© 2004 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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