NEW YORK — A suspect was arrested on Thursday for assaulting Jews on a New York City subway earlier this week in an incident caught on video.

Xeryus Mack, from Brooklyn, was charged with attempted assault, menacing and attempted harassment, the NYPD said.

Mack, 28, was arrested on Thursday afternoon in northwest Brooklyn.

In footage of the Monday night incident, two men approach a group of Hasidic men, hurl insults at them, grab a Jewish man’s neck and threaten to kill him.

The incident took place Monday at around 8:40 p.m. on a southbound 3 train near the Nostrand Avenue station in Brooklyn. There were no injuries, the NYPD said.

A man identified as Xeryus Mack has been arrested three other times in the past year for charges including intent to damage property, burglary, trespassing, larceny, resisting arrest, assault and harassment, court records showed.

COL Live, a news outlet based in Crown Heights, the home base of the Chabad Hasidic movement, said the targets of the attack were a group of Chabad members who were returning to Brooklyn from Jewish outreach activities in........

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