{"id":95357,"date":"2026-01-09T23:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/95357\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:49:08","slug":"antisemitic-vandal-carves-die-thieves-on-nyc-library-door-hosting-jewish-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/95357\/","title":{"rendered":"Antisemitic vandal carves &#8216;Die Thieves&#8217; on NYC library door hosting Jewish exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A antisemitic vandal carved the words \u201cDie Thieves\u201d into the front door of a 142-year-old Upper East Side library where a Jewish gallery exhibit was on display \u2013 and then threatened an employee with the same blade, cops and sources said Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The long-haired, bearded suspect was caught in the act by a worker as he etched the disturbing words on the door of The Grolier Club on East 60th Street near Park Avenue around 12:15 p.m. Dec. 27, police said.<\/p>\n<p>When the 24-year-old employee approached, the menace flashed the tool he\u2019d used to make the carvings and spewed \u201canti-Jewish remarks,\u201d cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.94247246;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38142902\" width=\"556\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/118582139.jpg\" alt=\"The long-haired, bearded suspect was caught in the act etching the disturbing words on the door of The Grolier Club on East 60th Street near Park Avenue around 12:15 p.m. Dec. 27, police said.\" class=\"wp-image-38142902\"  \/>The long-haired, bearded suspect allegedly scrawled \u201cDie Thieves\u201d on the door of The Grolier Club, cops and sources said.  NYPD<\/p>\n<p>The hateful suspect then ran off, heading east on 60th Street, police said. <\/p>\n<p>No one was hurt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The disturbing incident came while the private museum, library and social club \u2013 founded in 1884 \u2013 was featuring an exhibit called Jewish Worlds Illuminated, which the venue said was \u201cdevoted exclusively to Jewish books.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit was composed of Hebrew manuscripts from the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary, according to the club\u2019s website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38142905\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/anti-semitic-vandal-carved-words-118582135.jpg\" alt=\"The long-haired, bearded suspect was caught in the act etching the disturbing words on the door of The Grolier Club on East 60th Street near Park Avenue around 12:15 p.m. Dec. 27, police said.\" class=\"wp-image-38142905\"  \/>The museum was featuring a historical Jewish book exhibit at the time of the vandalism.  Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD\u2019s\u00a0Hate Crime\u00a0Task Force was investigating, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Police described the suspect as a man with a light complexion, last seen wearing a blue jacket, burgundy pants and black shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on him was asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).<\/p>\n<p>The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/<\/a>, on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A antisemitic vandal carved the words \u201cDie Thieves\u201d into the front door of a 142-year-old Upper East Side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3862,303,75,57,9,56,63,65,64,466,58,5614],"class_list":{"0":"post-95357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-antisemitism","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-upper-east-side","18":"tag-us-news","19":"tag-vandalism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95357","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=95357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}