THAT’S COLD, BRO
A Bryant Park skating-rink employee was arrested after making threats against the popular site over social media, police said on Sunday.
“Pull up. N----s is getting popped on March 4th,” 17-year-old Emmanuel Nival wrote in a sincedeleted post on Instagram, according to cops.
The teen made what seemed to be a threat against Rink at Winter Village, a seasonal rink located within the Midtown park, on Wednesday under his handle, @thatlegendarykid.
His boss reported the incident to authorities on Friday.
Nival — who refers to himself as a “Living Legend” on Instagram — was nabbed later that day and confessed to making the threats against his boss and the rink on Sixth Avenue between 40th and 42nd streets, the sources said.
The March 4 date in Nival’s alleged threat is when the rink closes for the season, according to its site.
“We decided to make absolutely sure nothing bad would happen and we got the police involved,” Dan Biederman, executive director of the Bryant Park Corp., said Sunday.
“We didn’t really understand the message, but out of excessive cau- tion, we made sure that nothing would happen by bringing the police into it.”
Biederman said Nival, whom he described as a contract employee, had been punished for an unknown infraction before making the online threats.
“He had been reprimanded, so he mouthed off on social media,” the executive director explained.
Nival’s older sister, Julie, said her brother had been fired following the comments.
“He would say something like that to joke around, not to be serious,” the 19-year-old sibling said. “That wasn’t a threat.”
Deanna Baum, a 48-year-old regular at the park, travels from her home in Weehawken, NJ, to skate on the last day of the season.
“Everybody tries to make it,” she said. “It’s just the last night and everyone skates to the very last minute.”
“Certainly it’s alarming,” she added about the threat. “That isn’t the culture that’s here.”
Nival, from The Bronx, was charged with aggravated harassment.
He was arraigned late Saturday night and was released on bail. He has no previous arrests, police said.
A woman who identified herself as his grandmother said in she didn’t want to comment.