"Officers responded on Monday to a call at Gravesend Park in the southwest Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park, where they found about 16 swastikas painted in red on slides, walls and the ground. Then on Wednesday, police responded to another call and found about 57 swastikas drawn at the same playground in red, blue and yellow. Adolf Hitler was also scrawled in paint."
"The Borough Park neighborhood is home to about 46,000 Jewish adults and 50,000 Jewish children, and about 45% of households there include a Jewish person, according to a 2023 study from the nonprofit UJA-Federation of New York. New York political officials condemned the vandalism and pledged an investigation in a series of statements. I am sickened by this antisemitic vandalism in Borough Park, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement."
Dozens of swastikas were painted at Gravesend Park playground in Borough Park across two incidents, with about 16 painted in red on Monday and about 57 drawn in red, blue and yellow on Wednesday. The name 'Adolf Hitler' was also scrawled in paint. The NYPD's hate crimes task force is investigating both incidents and no arrests have been made. The Brooklyn Community Board 12 posted photos of the vandalism. The incidents occur amid a broader rise in antisemitic incidents since October 2023; the NYPD recorded 576 hate crime incidents last year, about 330 targeting Jews. Elected officials condemned the vandalism and pledged investigations.
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