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Shopping Strip Closed after Security Alert outside Pelham Bay Funeral Parlor

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By DAVID GREENE
Members of the NYPD’s 45th precinct, Emergency Service Unit, Bomb Squad and the Evidence Collection Team gather outside of the Ralph Giordano Funeral Home on Crosby Avenue in the Pelham Bay section of the Bronx, after someone left a pressure cooker in the doorway of the establishment on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020.
Photo by David Greene
Business is back to normal along a busy shopping strip in Pelham Bay, after a man reportedly left a pressure cooker outside of a funeral parlor.

 

According to residents and workers in the area, members of the NYPD’s 45th precinct, Emergency Services Unit and the Bomb Squad were joined at the location by members of the F.B.I., who arrived on the scene around 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 15.

 

The block was quickly shut down along Crosby Avenue, between Westchester Avenue and Roberts Avenue, after a pressure cooker was found in the doorway of Ralph Giordano Funeral Home Inc.

Members of the NYPD’s 45th precinct, Emergency Service Unit, Bomb Squad and the Evidence Collection Team gather outside of the Ralph Giordano Funeral Home on Crosby Avenue in the Pelham Bay section of the Bronx, after someone left a pressure cooker in the doorway of the establishment on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020.
Photo by David Greene.

Police eventually opened up the block around 12 noon after it was apparently determined that the cooking device contained no explosives. Crime scene tape roped off the front entrance of the funeral home, located at 1727 Crosby Avenue, as detectives continued to inspect and photograph the common household item.

 

Restaurants on the block began opening at noon as workers began a mad dash to fill delayed lunchtime orders.

A member of the NYPD’s Evidence Collection Team begins to dust a pressure cooker discovered in the doorway of the Ralph Giordano Funeral Home on Crosby Avenue in the Pelham Bay section of the Bronx, after someone left a pressure cooker in the doorway of the establishment on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020.
Photo by David Greene

By 1 p.m., detectives from the NYPD’s Evidence Collection Team were observed dusting the pressure cooker for fingerprints on the sidewalk in front of the funeral parlor.

 

A person who answered the phone at the Ralph Giordano Funeral Home said he was unable to elaborate further on the incident, except to say that the funeral home had not received any threats prior to the device being discovered in the doorway.

 

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2 thoughts on “Shopping Strip Closed after Security Alert outside Pelham Bay Funeral Parlor”

  1. Robert Press

    Pelham Bay is in Sector B of the 45th Precinct, and Community Board 10. The 45th Precinct covers the Community Board 10 area.
    The 49th Precinct covers the Community Board 11 area.

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