Central Brooklyn
PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDEN – Cops need help searching for a suspect who allegedly shouted homophobic slurs and punched a man earlier this month. On April 4, a 24-year-old man was walking on Lincoln Road at about 1:25 p.m. As he was walking, another man came toward him, shouted anti-gay
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MIDWOOD – The NYPD has released a photo and video of the man believed to have assaulted a Muslim woman last week. To recap, on March 16, Umber Nisar was walking home when a man approached her and kicked her. The incident took place between Avenue H and Rugby Road, right
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Umber Nisar (middle) speaks about what happened to her. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)MIDWOOD – Umber Nisar, the Muslim woman who was assaulted three days ago [/muslim-woman-hate-crime/], sat on a chair facing the cameras. She was fidgeting with her hands and occasionally looked up, her eyes were filled with tears, but
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerUPDATE: While the NYPD still has not released photos or video of the assailant, it seems it is now being investigated by the Hate Crimes Unit, though the cops won’t tell us when that switch happened. MIDWOOD – Umber Nisar usually drives everywhere. But, the weather was
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GREENPOINT – Repugnant words and a swastika were drawn over the face of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on “The Unstoppable Ruth Bader Ginsburg: American Icon” book poster at a G Train subway stop. Yesterday, a woman tweeted the image, which included the words “Die” “Jew” and “Bitch” along with
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Mathieu Eugene. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)MADISON/MARINE PARK – Many people stood on the left side of the podium inside James Madison High School on Sunday. There was a Muslim woman, her hair covered in a scarf, her daughter standing in front of her. Right next to her stood a
Bushwick
Women of the Chabad of Bushwick light candles in the window to rededicate the synagogue and bring in the Sabbath. Todd Maisel/BklynerBUSHWICK – The Jewish community of the Chabad of Bushwick showed their resilience on the Sabbath Friday night, February 22, by lighting candles in the very window of the
hate crimes
PARK SLOPE – The NYPD is searching for a man who stole a statue from Saint Thomas Aquinas Church and then dumped it into a nearby trash can. Surveillance video taken at approximately 11:10am last Wednesday, February 20, shows a man walking out of the church at 249 9th Street
Bushwick
Chabad of Bushwick (Screenshot: Google Maps)BUSHWICK — A Bushwick storefront synagogue was vandalized Saturday amid a rise in hate crimes throughout New York City. Two vandals shattered the front window of the Chabad of Bushwick synagogue Saturday morning at 2:00 am, according to police. Rabbi Menachem Heller told several
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Mayor Bill de Blasio during a rally against anti-Semitism at Kingsway Jewish Center (Photo: Todd Maisel)MIDWOOD — Mayor Bill de Blasio denounced the recent uptick in hate crime complaints Thursday morning during a rally at the Kingsway Jewish Center [https://www.kingswayjewishcenter.org/] in Midwood. Hate crimes are up 81
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SHEEPSHEAD BAY – The Seaport Buffet attacker has been arraigned on 3 charges of Murder as a hate crime. “This was a violent, horrific and harrowing attack on three completely innocent, hardworking men who were targeted simply because they were Asian,” District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement. “Sheepshead Bay,
Crown Heights
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] CROWN HEIGHTS – NYPD arrested three men in connection with two separate assaults on Jewish men early Wednesday morning in Crown Heights. Teshon Bannister, 21, and Navar Walters, 18 were first arrested and