NEW YORK—An explosion occurred early Monday morning at a Starbucks coffee shop in Manhattan's wealthy Upper East Side that destroyed a bench and shattered the shop's windows.
The blast occurred at 3:30 a.m. near the Starbucks shop at 92nd Avenue and Third Avenue, which is only a few blocks from the famous Guggenheim Museum.
No one was reported injured in the explosion.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told a press conference that the New York Police Department was trying to determine whether the blasts were related to similar explosions at the British Consulate in May 2005, at the Mexican consulate in October 2007 and a more high-profile explosion at the Times Square Army Recruiting Center in March 2008.
In all the previous incidents, a bicyclist had been seen around the crime scene by witnesses and surveillance cameras.
Kelly said that in the incident at Starbucks no one had stepped forward as witnesses, and that the police were seeking surveillance videos from the area.
In a press conference held in the area, Kelly said that the bomb was described by experts "as a low explosive," as quoted by the New York Times.
