A shocking antisemitic message was found scrawled on a rock outcropping in Manhattan’s Riverside Park, police saidTuesday.
“Kill a Jew, go to heaven,” was discovered graffitied on a bike trail near W. 109th St. inside the Upper West Side park about 4:30 p.m. Sunday, cops said.
The message alarmed those who read it and reported it to police, cops said.
Assemblyman Micah Lasher (D-Upper West Side) shared an image of the graffiti on X shortly after it was discovered.
“I share this appalling message reluctantly, but it is important for people to see the kind of antisemitic hate that has become commonplace,” said Lasher, who is currently running for Congress. “This is in the park where I raised my kids, in one of the most Jewish neighborhoods in the city.”
I share this appalling message reluctantly, but it is important for people to see the kind of antisemitic hate that has become commonplace. This is in the park where I raised my kids, in one of the most Jewish neighborhoods in the city. My thanks to the NYPD and the Parks… pic.twitter.com/QAgyVJoDMF
— Micah Lasher (@MicahLasher) March 15, 2026
No arrests have been made. NYPD Hate Crime detectives are trying to track the vandal down.
Madison Mounty, director of Government Relations and Advocacy at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a national Jewish Human Rights organization, said all New Yorkers should be outraged by the graffiti.
“We call on all New Yorkers, from every borough, every community, and every political perspective, to stand up and say the same: this is not OK,” Madison said. “Silence in the face of hate is not neutrality. Silence is complicity.”