Crime & Safety

Man Spits On, Harasses Brooklyn Teen In Antisemitic Attack: NYPD

Police are investigating an attack in Borough Park as a hate crime.

Police are investigating an attack in Borough Park as a hate crime.
Police are investigating an attack in Borough Park as a hate crime. (NYPD)

BROOKLYN, NY — Police are looking for a hate-monger they said attacked a 13-year-old last fall in an antisemitic hate crime in Borough Park.

At about 7:15 p.m. on Oct. 17, a teenage boy was walking on the sidewalk in front of 1164 47th Street, when a mysterious man came up and started making antisemitic remarks, police said.

The hate-spewing man then spat in the teen's face before walking away, according to a police source.

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Police were investigating the attack as an antisemitic hate crime, but had made no arrests, according to the NYPD and a police source.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

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