Another Man Scrawls Possible Hate Message On UES Synagogue: Police

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Another man with a sharpie took to scrawling a message on another Upper East Side synagogue in what police said could be a possible hate crime on Monday — the second such incident in almost as many days.

At about 4 p.m., an unidentified man scrawled a message with a black sharpie on a glass display outside of Temple Shaaray Tefila on Second Avenue near East 79th Street, police said.

According to officials, the man wrote "DEAD RIIIP" with a black marker.

Police said that the graffiti is being investigated by the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force as a possible bias crime.

The incident is very similar to Saturday's vandalism at the Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun Synagogue in Carnegie Hill, where police said a man wrote an explicitly antisemitic message with a black sharpie on a glass video screen outside of the place of worship.

In that act of hate, police are offering a $3,500 reward for information leading to the suspect's arrest and also released surveillance photos of a man they say is connected to the incident.

Police said there is not a connection between the two incidents at this time and have not released any photos or videos from Monday's incident.

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).