Moments of panic last night a few hours before midnight near Times Square, where police shot a man armed with a machete who had attacked three officers, two of whom were shot in the head.
The suspect, a 19-year-old youth, was injured and hospitalized.
According to the New York Post, the police, together with the FBI, are investigating whether the attacker is a recently radicalized Islamic extremist.
One of the two injured officers was on his first day on the job.