A giant banner featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin dressed in a suit in front of the Russian flag with the word "Peacemaker" in capital letters appeared on the side of the Manhattan Bridge in New York on October 6.
The banner reportedly began flapping over the side of the span shortly before 2 p.m.
According to the New York Post, police officers removed the banner at about 3 p.m. and removed it about a half hour later
It's not clear who put the banner there, but the New York Police Department (NYPD) said it's taken it down.
Reuters reports that police have made no arrests but are looking at surveillance video on the bridge and in nearby areas to identify a suspect.
NBC reports that it's not the first time someone's hung something from the bridge. In 2014, activists unfurled a Palestinian flag from the span during a march in support for those in Gaza.
Also that year, a pair of German artists swapped two U.S. flags atop the Brooklyn Bridge's two towers with a pair of bleached white replicas.
