NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed that the NYPD bomb squad was deployed to the scene. The unit found no explosives after a sweep of the car. Tisch, along with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and New York Attorney General Letitia James, provided an update to the media on the incident shortly after 11 p.m. “This incident is currently being reported as a hate crime by the NYPD’s hate crime task force,” Tisch said. She also announced that “out of an abundance of caution,” the NYPD had “significantly increased” police presence at houses of worship across all of New York...