A suspicious package was sent to Robert De Niro’s Tribeca restaurant, police sources told The Post early Thursday.
The parcel to the Tribeca Grill on Greenwich Street was “the same” as the explosive devices mailed to top Democrats the day before, the sources said.
A building worker noticed the package at around 4 a.m. and notified police, NBC 4 reported.
There was no need for an evacuation in Thursday’s incident because the building was unoccupied, the outlet reported.
De Niro, a vocal critic of President Trump, unleashed a torrent of obscenities at the commander-in-chief during the recent Tony Awards as he introduced Bruce Springsteen.
“First, I wanna say, “F—l Trump,” the “Raging Bull” star said at Radio City Hall in June. “It’s no longer, ‘Down with Trump,’ it’s, ‘F—k Trump!’”
Trump shot back two days later on Twitter.
“Robert De Niro, a very Low IQ individual, has received to [sic] many shots to the head by real boxers in movies. I watched him last night and truly believe he may be ‘punch-drunk,’” he wrote.
”I guess he doesn’t realize the economy is the best it’s ever been with employment being at an all time high, and many companies pouring back into our country. Wake up Punchy!”
De Niro later apologized – not to Trump, but on America’s behalf to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whom the president had insulted as “very dishonest & weak” after Trudeau threw shade on the president’s trade policies.
De Niro is a seven-time Academy Award nominee, and won Oscars for playing Vito Corleone in “The Godfather Part II” and Jake LaMotta in “Raging Bull.”
In 2009, he was among the five recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, presented by then-President Obama.
The package sent to De Niro was the eighth explosive device sent so far this week.
Pipe bombs have been sent to former President Obama, Hillary Clinton, along with billionaire George Soros and CNN’s Manhattan bureau, the sources said. The one sent to the news outlet was addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan.
Another was sent to former US Attorney General Eric Holder, though it wound up being “returned to sender” – the Florida office of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, according to the FBI.
Police also found two suspicious packages addressed to Rep. Maxine Waters at a congressional mailing facility in Maryland.
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