&lt;p&gt;&                 amp;#8220;Good afternoon. I&amp;#8217;m joined here in City Hall by Police                 Commissioner Ray Kelly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Ten days ago,                 our city and n                 ation received a horrific reminder that we remain targets for terrorists.                 Immediately upon news of the explosions in Boston, we fully                 mobilized the New York                 City Police Department&amp;#8217;s vast counterterrorism operations                 &amp;#8211; because we thought there was a possibility that there                 could be a related at                 tack here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;We now know that that                 possibility was &amp;#8211; in fact &amp;#8211; all too real. Last                 night, we were informed by                 the FBI that the surviving attacker revealed that New York City was                 next on their list of targets.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;He told                 the FBI apparently t                 hat he and his brother had intended to drive to New York and detonate                 additional explosives in Times Square. They had built those                 additional explosives, and                 we know they had the capacity to carry out the                 attacks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;If, God forbid, they had                 arrived in New York City and gone to Times Sq                 uare, one thing&amp;#8217;s for sure, they would have seen an enormous                 police presence. But they would not have seen the extensive network                 of cameras that a                 re part of our security initiative, and which can help police identify                 suspicious movements, such as a package left unattended on the                 street.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p                 &gt;&amp;#8220;The investments we&amp;#8217;ve made in counterterrorism operations,                 technology, and intelligence help reduce the possibility of a                 successful                 terrorist strike, but they certainly do not eliminate it. Nothing can do                 that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;We don&amp;#8217;t know if we                 would have been a                 ble to stop the terrorists, had they arrived here from Boston,                 we&amp;#8217;re just thankful we didn&amp;#8217;t have to find out                 that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;                 p&gt;&amp;#8220;And as a result of the extraordinary work of the Watertown,                 Massachusetts Police Department, the Boston Police Department, the                 FBI, the Depa                 rtment of Homeland Security, and other law enforcement agencies the                 terrorists were stopped before they could carry out further attacks,                 though not before s                 adly murdering an MIT police officer, Sean Collier, and wounding                 others.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;The role that surveillance                 cameras played in identifyi                 ng the suspects was absolutely essential to saving lives &amp;#8211;                 both in Boston, and now we know, here in New York City as well.                 We&amp;#8217;ve made ma                 jor investments in camera technology &amp;#8211; notwithstanding the                 objections of some special interests. And the attacks in Boston I                 think demonstrate jus                 t how valuable those cameras can                 be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;We&amp;#8217;ve been able to make                 these investments &amp;#8211; and many others &amp;#8211                 ; with support from the federal government, and I did want to thank                 Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and President Obama for                 recognizing that ho                 meland security funding should be based on threat, and threat alone                 &amp;#8211; not pork barrel                 politics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;The fact is, New York                 City remains a prime target for those who hate America and want to kill                 Americans. The attacks in Boston &amp;#8211; and the news that New                 York City was ne                 xt on the terrorists&amp;#8217; list &amp;#8211; shows just how                 critical it is for the federal government to devote resources to                 high-risk areas.&lt;/p&gt;&                 lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;It also shows just how crucial it is for the NYPD to continue to                 expand its counterterrorism capabilities and intelligence gathering                 acti                 vities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Now, let me turn the floor over to Police Commissioner Ray                 Kelly.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&l                 t;strong&gt;The following are Police Commissioner Raymond W.                 Kelly&amp;#8217;s remarks as                 delivered:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;T                 hank you, Mr. Mayor. As the Mayor said, last evening we learned                 through the Joint Terrorist Task Force that the Boston Marathon                 bombers had planned to trave                 l to Manhattan to detonate remaining bombs in Times                 Square.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the terror                 suspect who was captured alive, initi                 ally told investigators that he and his brother decided after the Boston                 bombings that they would go to New York City to                 party.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220                 ;However, a subsequent questioning of Dzhokhar revealed that he and his                 brother decided spontaneously on Times Square as a target. They                 would drive to Times                 Square that same night.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;They discussed this                 while driving around in a Mercedes SUV that they had hijacked after                 they shot and                 killed an MIT Police Officer in Cambridge, Dzhokhar said. That plan,                 however, fell apart when they realized that the vehicle that they                 hijacked was low on g                 as and ordered the driver to stop at a nearby gas                 station.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;The driver used the                 opportunity to escape and call the police. That                 eventually led to the shootout in Watertown where the older brother was killed                 in an exchange of gunfire with the                 police.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Up un                 til that point the two brothers had at their disposal six improvised                 explosive devices. One was a pressure cooker bomb similar to the two                 that had exploded                 at the Marathon. The other fired were pipe                 bombs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;We know that Dzhokhar was                 photographed in Times Square with friends on or bef                 ore April 18th of 2012 and that he was in the city again in November of                 2012. We don&amp;#8217;t know if those visits were related in any                 way to what he des                 cribed as the brothers&amp;#8217; spontaneous decision to target Times                 Square.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;The NYPD Intelligence Division                 is actively inves                 tigating to determine Dzhokhar movements in New York City, as well as who he                 might have been with here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;New York                 City detective                 s and supervisors assigned to the Joint Terrorist Task Force with the                 FBI are assisting in the ongoing investigation in both Boston and                 New York. There&amp;                 #8217;s no evidence at this time, however, to indicate that New York City                 is currently a target of another terrorist attack stemming from the                 Boston bombing                 s. Mr. Mayor?&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;