TIMES SQUARE — A guest who had just checked into the Paramount Hotel received a call to his room phone warning there was a bomb in the building, police said.
The 23-year-old from California had just gone to his room inside the hotel at 235 W. 46th St. around 7:10 p.m. on Saturday when the hotel's landline started ringing, the NYPD said.
He picked up the phone, and an unknown male caller stated, “You should evacuate the building. There is a bomb,” police said.
The guest left his room and notified Paramount Hotel staff, who called 911, the NYPD said.
Responding officers and the hotel’s fire safety officer conducted a canvas of the hotel but didn’t find any signs of a threat, police said.
Police did not say whether the hotel was evacuated due to the threat.
The call was traced to a pair of nearby addresses at the corner of West 45th Street and Ninth Avenue, police said. It was not clear how the call was traced to both addresses, but a police canvas of the locations did not result in any arrests.
The Paramount Hotel did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.
