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# Grenade Found In Gerritsen Beach Apartment Building, Cops Say
- URL: https://bklyner.com/grenade-found-in-gerritsen-beach-apartment-building-cops-say-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2016-03-08T21:54:17.000Z
- Updated: 2016-03-08T22:58:27.000Z
- Author: Alex Ellefson
- Tags: News, Nonsponsored, Sheepshead Bay, Southern Brooklyn, 2220 burnett street, co-op building, coop apartments, gerritsen beach, grenade, Marine Park, nypd, police, #wp

![The apartment building at 2220 Burnett Street. (Source: Google Maps)](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Screen-Shot-2016-03-08-at-4.49.33-PM.png)

The apartment building at 2220 Burnett Street. (Source: Google Maps)

The NYPD’s Bomb Squad was called to a Gerritsen Beach apartment building Tuesday morning after a worker discovered a grenade inside a storage box containing other WWII relics, according to police.

Officer were called to the residence, a co-op building on Burnett Street near Avenue U, at 11:20am, authorities say. They quickly determined the explosive device, which “looks like it says ‘practice’ on it,” was inert and harmless, according to the NYPD.

The box was discovered in a storage room in the building’s basement and contained other items from the Second World War, police say

The building’s superintendent found the grenade while cleaning items out of a recently deceased tenant’s apartment, [News 12 Brooklyn reports](http://brooklyn.news12.com/news/grenade-in-dead-man-s-apartment-causes-scare-on-burnett-street-in-sheepshead-bay-1.11551398?ref=bklyner.com).