Sword-Armed Teens Threaten Kids On UWS In Antisemitic Attack: NYPD

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Three teens armed with a sword, a crowbar and a knife threatened boys on the Upper West Side because the boys were Jewish, police said.

The six boys found themselves facing off against the teens near the corner of West End Avenue and West 86th Street at about 7:20 p.m. on Saturday, police said.

The three teens told the group of six, whose ages range from 12 to 16, that "they wanted to get them" because they were Jewish, police said.

The teens then followed the boys home before running away, police said. There were no injuries.

A woman who identified herself as the mother of one of the boys replied to a Facebook post from Council Member Gale Brewer alerting the neighborhood to the attack.

"It is sickening that kids around his own age are walking around this neighborhood with knives and crowbars targeting Jews, taunting them to fight," the woman wrote. "And on Shabbat no less."

Brewer's post identified the targeted kids as middle and high schoolers, and noted the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force had been informed.

"My office was informed of a horrible anti-semitic attack," Brewer wrote. "Anti-semitism is abhorrent and an attack on us all."