Overview
- Police released surveillance images Wednesday of four people wanted after swastikas were found at five sites in Forest Hills and Rego Park following Monday’s overnight attacks.
- The defacement hit the Rego Park Jewish Center with a swastika and “Heil Hitler,” struck Congregation Machane Chodosh, and marked two homes and a car, including a site that houses a pre-K.
- The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is leading the investigation, and no arrests had been announced as of the latest reports.
- Officials across government condemned the acts, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the graffiti “deliberate antisemitic hatred” that even defaced a Kristallnacht memorial plaque.
- Recent NYPD figures show Jews comprised about 60% of confirmed hate-crime victims last month in New York City, a trend advocates say frames the community’s fear after this spree.