UWS Man Arrested After Synagogue Threats: Report

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — An Upper West Sider who is Jewish and the grandson of a Holocaust survivor is one of two men arrested Friday over threats made against the "Jewish community", reported the New York Post.

Matthew Mahrer, 22, and a Long Island man carried a large hunting knife, a gun, a 30-round magazine when police arrested them entering Penn Station Friday, according to the NYPD and multiple publications.

The second man arrested was Christopher Brown, 21, of Aquebogue, New York,

The arrests came after a threat to attack an unspecified synagogue — along with the line, "Gonna ask a priest if I should become a husband or shoot up a synagogue and die" — was traced from Twitter to one of the men's computers, sources told CNN.

Brown was charged with making terroristic threats, aggravated harassment and criminal possession of a weapon, an NYPD spokesperson said. The Daily News also reported that Brown had a swastika armband at the time of his arrest.

Meanwhile, Upper West Side resident Mahrer was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, an NYPD spokesperson said.

Mahrer lives in the neighborhood with his parents and his 93-year-old grandfather — who survived the Holocaust and for whom Mahrer serves as a part-time caretaker, the New York Post reported.

The Upper West Side man is expected back in court on Wednesday, the newspaper added.