Desean Maryat, 26, is facing a slew of crimes, including reckless endangerment, making terroristic threats and threatening mass harm, when he placed the cylinder-like object outside an NYPD

Times Square was briefly shut down Monday due to a police investigation of a suspicious package outside of an NYPD sub-station, police officials said.

A suspicious package found in Times Square was intentionally placed, sources told PIX11 News. Police advised people to avoid the area near 43rd Street and Seventh Avenue Monday just after 11 a.m. A suspicious package was found in front of a police facility,

The free spectacle, “Founded By Broadway,” will be held in Duffy Square on West 46th and West 47th streets between Broadway and Seventh Avenue on Sept. 7 starting at 11 a.m., rain or shine.

Times Square was shut down Monday as the New York City Police Department investigated a possible suspicious package.

A suspect faces multiple charges after allegedly leaving a suspicious package in Times Square on Monday, according to the New York Police Department. On Monday at approximately 10:32 a.m., police responded to a call of a "suspicious package" in the vicinity of West 43 Street and Seventh Avenue, officials said in a statement to ABC News.

According to FOX 5, Caesars Palace is flirting with a $5.4 billion casino in Times Square that is being backed by Jay-Z’s Roc Nation. New York has opened licenses to three potential down-state casinos to operate throughout the five boroughs.

A pair of adjacent Times Square buildings that sold late last year for about $48 million have again traded hands just eight months later — this time for $62 million — according to the developers and financiers involved in the transaction.