{"id":160993,"date":"2026-03-12T00:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160993\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T00:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:49:06","slug":"gracie-mansion-terror-plot-suspects-charged-with-attempting-isis-inspired-attack-in-nyc-considered-other-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160993\/","title":{"rendered":"Gracie Mansion terror plot: Suspects charged with attempting ISIS-inspired attack in NYC considered other targets"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK CITY — The two Pennsylvania men charged with attempting to carry out, what authorities described as an ISIS-inspired attack in New York City<\/a>, considered other targets before driving into Manhattan late Saturday morning with homemade bombs, law enforcement sources told ABC News.<\/p>\n

Investigators searching a storage unit in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi and 18-year-old Emir Balat are from, discovered a notebook in which the suspects wrote about soft targets like shopping centers, the sources said. No specific target was mentioned.<\/p>\n

The NYPD said the teens brought improvised explosives to Gracie Mansion where an anti-Muslim protest clashed with a counter demonstration.<\/p>\n

RELATED | Gracie Mansion hero officers speak out after stopping men accused of trying to set off bombs<\/a><\/p>\n

The notebook and other evidence suggested Balat and Kayumi had been planning some kind of an attack for at least a week, the sources said.<\/p>\n

Video ABC News obtained appeared to show one of the teens entering a fireworks store in Penndel, Pennsylvania on Monday, March 2, and making a purchase.<\/p>\n

“The single item purchased was a 20 feet length of consumer fireworks safety fuse. The total spend was under $7,” Phantom Fireworks’ William Weimer said in an email to ABC News that identified the man in the video as Emir Balat.<\/p>\n

The FBI carried out controlled detonations of devices<\/a> in the storage unit that contained explosive residue.<\/p>\n

Balat and Kayumi are being held on a terrorism charge, use of a weapon of mass destruction and other offenses. They have not yet entered a plea.<\/p>\n

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