WASHINGTON — Jane Schreibman was alerted by a neighbor of an explosion on a nearby street in New York City on Saturday night Sept. 17.
“So I went running out to see what had happened on 23rd Street. I walked by something that caught my eye. I didn’t know it was pressure cooker. It just looked like a big pot to me, and it had wires coming out it and they were attached to some other device that I couldn’t make out,” Schreibman said.
She continued on to 23rd Street to see what the fuss was all about, but she felt something wasn’t right.
“There was this nagging idea in my mind that I should go back and take a better look at this object,” she said.
When she returned, it was still there. “I thought it was either a child science project for school or an artist trying to do some kind of kinetic artwork,” Schreibman said.
She left it there on the street, went up to her apartment and called 911. Still not aware it was a bomb, she returned to the scene and, “There was a State Trooper at the site and he saw me coming, and he said ‘Run. Get off the street,’” Schreibman said.
