Marymount Manhattan Gets Another Bomb Threat, Man Arrested: NYPD

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A man is facing charges after calling in repeated bomb threats to the Upper East Side's Marymount Manhattan College, once again forcing the school to evacuate on Wednesday, police said.

Police searched the college campus, which consists of two academic buildings and a townhouse on East 71st and 72nd streets between Second and Third avenues, and found no signs of danger on Wednesday around 4:30 p.m., police said. On Wednesday night the NYPD's 19th Precinct announced that a man was arrested in connection to the bomb threat, but did not reveal the man's identity.

Marymount Manhattan was forced to shut its campus down for several days earlier in the month after receiving repeated threats, according to an email sent to school alumni on Oct. 3. At that time, school officials said that police had taken a man into custody for sending the threats.

College officials believe that the person also attempted to enter school buildings on numerous occasions, but failed to make it past security. The person also allegedly bothered male students outside campus buildings in an attempt to learn information about a former Marymount student who attended the school in 2017, college president Kerry Walk said in the email sent to alumni.