The NYPD Hate Crime Unit is investigating swastikas discovered scrawled inside an elevator in a Williamsburg apartment building. CBS reports that the swastikas were found inside an elevator at 70 Ross Street in Williamsburg. According to the Post, the same building was targeted earlier this month, when a swastika was etched into the button control panel of an elevator.
This is only the latest anti-Semitic act that's occurred in the previous month. Police arrested a Jackson Heights man accused of defacing a Queens synagogue, library and church with swastikas. Just before Thanksgiving, a man was stabbed on the subway allegedly because of a spat over some anti-Semitic comments. An Avenue J subway sign in Midwood was found vandalized with the words "Avenue Jew." And police are still looking for vandals who torched three cars, tried to burn a fourth, and scrawled anti-semitic graffiti on a nearby van and benches in Midwood on the anniversary of the end of Kristallnacht.
