UN in New York cordoned off, gunman outside headquarters

Images circulating on social media showed a man, dressed in red, holding what looks like a large caliber weapon under his chin, on a sidewalk surrounding the United Nations headquarters compound, surrounded by police, at the level from 42nd Street and 1st Avenue in Manhattan.

“We are in the process of establishing a dialogue” with the individual, “a white man in his sixties, possibly armed. The situation is ongoing,” an NYPD spokesperson told AFP. , the New York police.