Car Bomb in Times Square

New York police disarmed a bomb in a sport utility vehicle parked in Times Square, averting an attack in the heart of the city’s theater district on a Saturday evening.

“We are very lucky that we avoided what could have been a very deadly event,” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters at a 2:20 a.m. news conference today one block from the corner of 45th Street and Broadway. “We have no idea who did this or why.”