Anti-Semitic Graffiti Found In UWS Subway Stop, Police Say

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — The NYPD hate crimes unit is investigating anti-Semitic graffiti found this week at an Upper West Side subway station, police said.

Police found the graffiti at the West 103rd Street and Broadway subway station Monday morning, according to a post on the hate crimes unit's Twitter page. Two images of swastikas, a Nazi SS symbol and the words "kill all Jews," were written on a subway wall inside the station, according to police.

The racist vandal also scrawled the name of a URL that referenced Adolf Hitler, but the website does not exist.

The Upper West Side has dealt with a number of similar anti-Semitic acts of vandalism in recent years. In 2018 the neighborhood was plagued with swastika graffiti around the same time that a Jewish professor at Columbia found anti-Semitic slurs painted on the walls of her office.

This year, NYPD officials announced that hate crimes against Jewish people nearly doubled in the first four months of the year compared to 2018. The NYPD recorded 82 anti-Semitic hate crimes between Jan. 1 and April 30, up from just 45 in the same period last year.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS (8477).