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.

The ensuing investigation prompted police to close Seventh Avenue between 42nd and 44th Streets on Monday morning.

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