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Hudson Yards station reopens after bomb threat prompts NYPD to evacuate the area
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Giulia Heyward
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Louis C. Hochman
Published Oct 3, 2025
Modified Oct 3, 2025
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The area around Hudson Yards train station is once again open to the public and operating after a bomb threat led the NYPD to evacuate the area Friday evening, police said.
According to the NYPD, police responded to a 911 call about a bomb threat in the area of 33rd Street and 10th Avenue a little after 5 p.m. They said they learned from security personnel that someone had entered the area and made verbal threats.
Several videos posted to social media Friday night appeared to show police directing people away from the area, including the Vessel structure at Hudson Yards.
Police said the bomb squad established a safe perimeter around the area, and a person was taken into custody, but they didn’t provide more information on whether any device was found or give more information about the person. They said around 8:15 p.m. that the station was back open.
The city’s Notify NYC service’s most recent alerts on social media at that time, posted about 6:40 p.m., still warned to expect traffic delays, mass transit disruptions and road closures, and told people to avoid the area. The MTA said earlier that evening 7 train service was suspended between Grand Central-42nd Street and 34th Street-Hudson Yards.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
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Giulia Heyward
Giulia Heyward is a breaking news reporter on the Day-Of desk. She previously worked at NPR, as a breaking news reporter, and the New York Times, as a reporting fellow on the national desk. Her work has also appeared in CNN, The Atlantic and Politico. Got a tip? Email [email protected] or more securely on signal at 917-715-1458.
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Louis C. Hochman
After about two decades in (mostly) New Jersey-focused commercial print, digital and digital-but-radio-adjacent news, Lou stumbled into member-supported news in early 2021, as the editor and CEO of Montclair Local. There, he (hopes he) expanded enterprise, brought more sophistication to digital storytelling and moved the nonprofit newsroom closer to long-term financial sustainability. He helped lead the Local to its fourth consecutive General Excellence award from the New Jersey Press Association — the NJPA's highest honor with judges noting the paper's work to strip away layers of government opacity, to hold power to account, to make news accessible for more members of the community, to share the stories and concerns of more facets of the community and to tell compelling stories across multiple media. He's excited to continue the same ethic — news as a public service — at NYPR as the New Jersey and suburbs editor, drawing on the extraordinary talents of reporters including Karen Yi and Nancy Solomon. Lou lives in Philly (that commute!) with his partner and their two cats, about whom and about which he speaks incessantly.
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