It’s a stink bomb of an art exhibit.
Barely 24 hours after the Times Square terror scare, firefighters used a crowbar to break into a Flatiron District storefront after a passerby reported what looked like bombs set to explode.
But the Sunday evening fuss was over an art display that included a fog machine, a fake time bomb, and some vials of stinky perfume in containers that looked like little pipe bombs.
The NYPD bomb squad was called in to make sure the display at 1133 Broadway was safe, and firefighters turned off the fog machine to make sure no more passersby would think the artwork was about to explode.
The show looked back to normal yesterday, with extra lighting and extra written explanation added to the display. The artist, Lisa Kirk, apologized to the bomb squad.
“I feel really bad that that happened,” she said. “I know they’re really busy . . . There are more important things to deal with than some art installation.”
The perfume inside the pipe bombs is called “Revolution,” and is supposed to smell like smoke, gasoline, tear gas, burnt rubber and decaying flesh.