Colin Moynihan Micah Cohen Nyt News Service

When the police noticed white smoke billowing from a dark-green Nissan Pathfinder on 45th Street near Seventh Avenue on Times Square, and then discovered the makings of a crude car bomb inside, the normal hubbub was replaced by a different sort of spectacle.

When the police noticed white smoke billowing from a dark-green Nissan Pathfinder on 45th Street near Seventh Avenue on Times Square, and then discovered the makings of a crude car bomb inside, the normal hubbub was replaced by a different sort of spectacle.