Listen up, Muggles — grab your wands, don your robes and get yourself a butter beer at the Harry Potter flagship store in Flatiron, which opened on Thursday. Lines to get in stretched around the block, as fans lined up to see what was inside. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.
A man in a ski mask shot at another person in front of a recently opened Harry Potter store in New York City early Friday, police said.
Gunfire was reported just before 3 a.m. at the Harry Potter store on Broadway in the Flatiron district, a police spokesperson said. The shooter, who was wearing a ski mask, fled in a black vehicle, police said.
No one was injured in the shooting, but a store window was shattered, police said.
The store, which opened in June, features Harry Potter-themed merchandise as well as props from the movies.
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