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Brooklyn Subway Bomb 'Hoax'

July 13, 2005

With New Yorkers still nervous about the safety of mass transit in the wake of last week's London terror bombings, cops are investigating a bizarre incident in which a man threatened to blow himself up in a Brooklyn subway station yesterday.

July 13, 2005 -- With New Yorkers still nervous about the safety of mass transit in the wake of last week's London terror bombings, cops are investigating a bizarre incident in which a man threatened to blow himself up in a Brooklyn subway station yesterday.

It's not believed the threat was credible, police sources said.

The man walked into the 86th Street R-line station near Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge at about 5 a.m.

He was wearing a backpack on his chest