QUEENS — Students and teachers were evacuated from P.S. 164 when someone called the school and said a bomb would go off there in 10 minutes Monday morning, police said.
The threat came into the campus at 138-01 77th Ave., near 138th Street, about 11 a.m., an NYPD spokesman said.
The school, which enrolls about 700 students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, was promptly evacuated, the spokesman said.
Police were investigating, they said. It wasn't immediately clear what that investigation yielded.
The call came about the same time another school in Sunnyside was evacuated because of a "student prank," officials said.
The prank caused a "smoke condition" at the school but students and staff were allowed back inside about 11:45 p.m., according to the website of Queens Vocational and Technical High School.
A spokesman for the Department of Education said the school was temporarily evacuated for an "unsubstantiated threat."
"It was immediately reported, and students and staff are safe," spokesman Robert Guttersohn said.
