{"id":80549,"date":"2025-12-24T23:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80549\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T23:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:21:07","slug":"cops-hunt-vandal-who-damaged-chanukah-menorah-outside-queens-jewish-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80549\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops hunt vandal who damaged Chanukah menorah outside Queens Jewish charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cops are hunting the vandal who damaged a menorah placed atop a car parked outside a Jewish charity in Queens on the second day of Chanukah, police said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The creep was caught on surveillance footage yanking the menorah off a car parked in front of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsqinc.org\/?page=mission\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tomchei Shabbos<\/a>, a charity organization that distributes food to the needy, on Metropolitan Ave. near 129th St. in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/129-01+Metropolitan+Ave,+Kew+Gardens,+NY+11415\/@40.7028605,-73.831024,2373m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c260b993150afd:0xc9d46e7d7e330ff1!8m2!3d40.703977!4d-73.823262!16s%2Fg%2F11q2nm0msd?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTIwOS4wIKXMDSoKLDEwMDc5MjA3M0gBUAM%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kew Gardens<\/a>, around 3:12 p.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The act caused unspecified damage to the holiday candelabra, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is wanted on a charge of criminal mischief as a hate crime, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/services\/law-enforcement\/hate-crimes.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vandalism is being investigated by the NYPD\u2019s<\/a> Hate Crime Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All tips will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops are hunting the vandal who damaged a menorah placed atop a car parked outside a Jewish charity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-80549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80549","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=80549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}