A suspicious bottle on a roadway outside the Lincoln Tunnel brought rush hour traffic leaving and entering New York City to a standstill on Friday afternoon.
A Port Authority spokesman said that a police investigation closed the eastbound and westbound lanes of Interstate 495 going in and out of the tunnel from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday.
Car traffic outside the tunnel was diverted to local streets in New Jersey. Commuter buses were held at Manhattan's Port Authority Bus Terminal, where thousands of commuters fumed.
Police determined that the bottle was harmless.
As the Z'man of Shabbos neared and Yidden were still stuck inside the tunnels, volunteers of the Sanz community in Union City along with Union City�Hatzolah headed towards the tunnel to bring the stranded�travelers to Union City for Shabbos. The families of Union City welcomed them and prepared rooms and food for them.
On Shabbos�afternoon one person came into the Shul not knowing where he was and not having eaten since Friday afternoon.
He related the following:�He had gotten off a bus outside the tunnel an hour after the Z'man Shabbos, and had found a hotel in Weehawken a few blocks from the tunnel. Not being able to carry, he had to walk the maximum of 4 Amus at a time with his bag......a walk that wouldn't take longer than 5 minutes took him almost 2 hours.
He finally arrived at the hotel and asked for assistance with the electrical doors. When the cleaning lady came into his room at 1PM on Shabbos afternoon, he was finally able to get out of his room. He then walked�for an hour to Union City & found the Shul. A Union City resident found him and invited him to his house for the Shabbos Seuda.
Union City Hatzolah reminds everybody that in case of any emergency at or next to the Lincoln tunnel, please call them at 201-422-9000.�Please keep this number handy.
Union City is at the second exit outside of the Lincoln Tunnel. The shul is located at 3400 New York Avenue.
(Dov Gordon - YWN NYC)
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