{"id":116270,"date":"2026-01-29T13:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/116270\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T13:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:03:10","slug":"police-arrest-driver-who-slammed-his-car-into-chabad-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/116270\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest driver who slammed his car into Chabad headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"

A police car drives through Brooklyn, Dec. 16, 2022. AP Photo\/Julia Nikhinson, File<\/p>\n

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CROWN HEIGHTS \u2014 POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING WHY A MAN REPEATEDLY SLAMMED HIS CAR into the Chabad World Headquarters on Eastern Parkway on Wednesday night, in what the NYPD is calling a possible hate crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There were no injuries reported as of press time Thursday morning, and the driver, who was wearing shorts in frigid weather, was arrested on the scene. The Associated Press<\/a> and Daily News<\/a> reported that the driver rammed his car repeatedly into a door of a building that is part of the 770 Eastern Parkway complex.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Witnesses who were present posted on social media that the driver reversed his vehicle and then struck the building a number of times. Pictures and a video posted on X<\/a> showed a black Honda Accord sedan with partially-blurred New Jersey plates on an icy driveway leading to doors below street level. People in the building for daily evening prayers were evacuated.<\/p>\n

The incident took place on the 75th anniversary<\/a> of the date that Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson became the leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, which aims to renew interest in religious Judaism. Schneerson established an outreach network of religious, educational and social service programs to help Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

The 770 Eastern Parkway complex also has strong Brooklyn history: Originally constructed in 1933 as a medical building, it became part of Chabad in 1940.<\/p>\n

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