Two days ago we featured a Boston Globe report with a new detail: that the Tsarnaev brothers told their carjack victim they were headed to New York. Today, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg held a press conference to reveal more information:

(Reuters) - The two men accused of carrying out last week’s bombing of the Boston Marathon planned a second bomb attack on New York’s Times Square, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Thursday.

The brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s original intent when they hijacked a car and its driver in Boston last Thursday night was to drive to New York with bombs and detonate them in Times Square, but their plan fell apart when they became embroiled in a shootout with police.

“Last night we were informed by the FBI that the surviving attacker revealed that New York City was next on their list of targets,” Bloomberg said at New York City Hall. “He and his older brother intended to drive to New York and detonate those explosives in Times Square.”

Since it takes about 4 to 5 hours to drive from Boston to New York, these dim-witted jihadis would have gotten to Times Square very early in the morning, when almost no one would have been there.