Swat teams have surrounded the building at 451 Frelinghuysen Avenue. It is listed as an address of several manufacturing and shipping companies, and is about a block away from the Newark-Liberty International Airport transit station in New Jersey.
Video from the scene showed a Bearcat armored vehicle parked behind the building, with armored SWAT team members taking an African-American man into custody.
A major hub for United Airlines, Newark Liberty (EWR) is the second-busiest airport in the New York City area, serving 37.5 million passengers in 2015.
Police was called in around 1 p.m., after reports of a "person with a gun" inside the building. Two people were evacuated by police, WABC reports, noting that they were the new owners of the building who were apparently confronted by a squatter armed with a shotgun.
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