Overview
- Two red swastikas were spray-painted on Magen David Yeshiva in Gravesend on election night at about 9:53 p.m., and security called 911 around 6:30 a.m., according to police.
- Officials said multiple Jewish locations were hit, with reports of swastikas at cemetery construction barriers and a nearby Jewish social services site.
- Surveillance video shows a lone bicyclist pausing outside the yeshiva before the graffiti appeared, and the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating with no arrests reported.
- Gov. Kathy Hochul condemned the incidents during a visit to the school and announced $20 million more for nonprofit security grants, raising the total to $90 million.
- Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani called the vandalism “disgusting and heartbreaking,” while Republican officials publicly tied the timing to his election and demanded a forceful response.