NYC park near Gracie Mansion temporarily evacuated over suspicious package found days after IED thrown

Rocco Parascandola and Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News on Mar 10, 2026

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NEW YORK — Cops evacuated a city park next to Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side on Tuesday after an unattended package was discovered — near where two ISIS-inspired protesters were arrested three days earlier for throwing homemade bombs, police said.

Cops responded to a promenade overlooking the water in Carl Shurz Park near East End Avenue and E. 85th Street, adjacent to Gracie Mansion.

After clearing the park, the NYPD Bomb Squad converged on the scene to identify the package and determine if it was filled with explosive materials.

“Due to a suspicious device, East End Avenue between East 85th and East 87th Street, as well as East 86th Street between York Avenue and East End Avenue are closed to vehicular and pedestrian traffic,” the NYPD said on X. “Additionally, Carl Schurz Park is closed at this time.”

Cops on Saturday recovered three homemade bombs from Ibraham Kayumi, 19, and Emir Balat, 18, who planned to lob the explosives at Jan. 6 rioter and right-wing provocateur Jake Lang.

One bomb was thrown, but never detonated. Bayat dropped a second device as he ran away from pursuing officers, according to federal prosecutors. A third explosive was found in a car used by the two men, the feds say.

One of the explosives was a duct-tape-wrapped mason jar with a fuse and triacetone triperoxide, the hallmark explosive seen in bombings around the world, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a Monday press conference at Gracie Mansion.

Both Kayumi and Balat live in Pennsylvania, where federal investigators found explosive residue in a storage unit the teens allegedly had access to. The feds detonated that material with several controlled explosions.

The two teens are currently facing federal terrorism charges.

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