Overview
- A security guard discovered red swastikas at Magen David Yeshiva in Gravesend around 6:30 a.m., and police launched a hate-crimes investigation.
- No arrests have been made, and the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is seeking the suspect.
- Surveillance video published by local media shows a lone bicyclist in a wide-brimmed hat stopping to scrawl the graffiti before riding away.
- Gov. Kathy Hochul said the yeshiva was one of several Jewish locations hit, visited the school, and offered State Police assistance to the NYPD.
- Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, Gov. Hochul, and other leaders condemned the vandalism, as political figures including Reps. Elise Stefanik and Nicole Malliotakis tied the incident to the election and criticized Mamdani.