{"id":107903,"date":"2026-01-21T23:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/107903\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T23:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:55:07","slug":"vile-antisemites-scrawl-swastikas-across-playground-in-heavily-jewish-nyc-neighborhood-over-two-straight-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/107903\/","title":{"rendered":"Vile antisemites scrawl swastikas across playground in heavily Jewish NYC neighborhood over two straight days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An antisemitic goon or goons twice painted swastikas across a playground frequented by Jewish children in Brooklyn \u2014 drawing widespread condemnation from New York leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The hateful graffiti \u2014 including red swastikas running down a children\u2019s slide \u2014 first festooned Gravesend Park in Borough Park on Tuesday, the local community board <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BrooklynCB12\/status\/2013714884622458939\/photo\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">posted on X<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>After the rotten tags were scrubbed away, the Nazi nimrods returned to scrawl \u201cAdolf Hitler\u201d amid dozens of new swastikas sometime before Wednesday morning, photos reveal and police said.<\/p>\n<p>Bigots painted swastikas across a playground frequented by Jewish children over two straight days. @StopAntisemites \/ X<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul said there is \u201cno excuse\u201d for the hateful graffiti. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The vile act is under investigation by the NYPD\u2019s Hate Crime Task Force, police said \u2014 as New York leaders roundly condemned the hateful crooks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA depraved act of antisemitism. In a children\u2019s playground where our kids should feel safe and have fun,\u201d Gov. Kathy Hochul posted on X, writing she directed the state\u2019s hate crimes task force to help the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no excuse. There is zero tolerance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The park at 56th Street and 18th Avenue sits in Borough Park, a neighborhood with nearly 100,000 Jewish people, including 50,000 children, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/communitystudy.ujafedny.org\/explore-data\/borough-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">UJA-Federation New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many Orthodox Jewish children frequent the park.<\/p>\n<p>The vandals returned to repaint the swastikas. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The back-to-back incidents come amid a spike in antisemitic attacks across New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The city saw 330 anti-Jewish hate crimes in 2025 alone, or more than half of all reported hate crimes, according to NYPD crime data. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sickened by this antisemitic vandalism in Borough Park,\u201d Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted on X. \u201cAntisemitism has no place in our city, and I stand shoulder to shoulder with the Jewish New Yorkers who were targeted. My administration is working closely with the NYPD\u2019s Hate Crimes Task Force as well as our Parks Department, and those responsible will be investigated and held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An antisemitic goon or goons twice painted swastikas across a playground frequented by Jewish children in Brooklyn \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3862,7544,98,10685,426,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,18377,58,82],"class_list":["post-107903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-antisemitism","tag-borough-park","tag-brooklyn","tag-hate-crimes","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-swastika","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}