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By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
Police are investigating
a swastika that some bigot
drew on a Grand Avenue
Jewish Community Center
on May 22.
An employee found the anti
Semitic symbol on the front
door of the community center
between Greene and Gates
avenues at 7 a.m. and investigators
have notified the Police
Department’s Hate Crime
bureau, a spokesman told this
paper.
Staff and parents were in
shock when they discovered
the hateful symbol outside the
building, which functions as
a child care center, preschool,
after school, and summer
camp facility, according to a
statement by the organization
which runs the premises.
“On Wednesday morning, at
JCC Brooklyn at Clinton Hill,
our preschool teachers and parents
were shocked to discover a
swastika outside their school,”
The Kings Bay Y said in an
emailed statement.
This was the first time the
organization was the target of
a hate attack, but it is part of
an uptick in bigoted speech
and actions against Jews and
other communities, the statement
continued.
“Kings Bay Y/JCC Brooklyn
was the target today for the
first time that anyone can remember,”
the statement read.
“In some respects, this may
be considered an isolated in-
Police are investigating a swastika that somebody drew on the front door of a Clinton Hill Jewish community
center on Grand Avenue on May 22.
cident, but it is part of a pattern
of malicious speech and
actions elsewhere in our community
and across our country.
We will continue to be
vigilant about and mindful
of any acts of ignorance or
hatred.”
The event comes just weeks
after a string of violent attacks
against Orthodox Jews in Williamsburg.
A city bus driver allegedly
tried to refuse service to an
Orthodox Jewish man in the
northern nabe in April, claiming
he would infect her with
the measles virus, amid an outbreak
of the potentially fatal
illness that recently spread
among the borough’s Orthodox
communities.
Hate crimes against various
communities are soaring
across the five boroughs, with
145 hate crimes reported between
Jan. 1 and April 30, a
67 percent increase over the
87 reported hate crimes reported
during the same period
in 2018.
Of those, more than half targeted
Jews in the first quarter
of both 2018 and 2019, with
82 attacks against Jewish New
Yorker’s this year alone.
By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
They want to be the first
responders!
The finest emergency personnel
from around the five
borough’s battled it out for the
title of best paramedics at the
19th Annual EMS Competition
at MetroTech Commons
on May 23.
ing to Rivera.
“It’s to bring awareness to
the public of what we do on
an everyday basis, where not
just ambulance drivers,” she
said.
A team of paramedics responds to a mannequin
drowning victim at the EMS Competition in Downtown’s
MetroTech Commons.
Photo by Kevin Duggan
Each borough put forward
its two best teams — one from
the basic life support and another
from the advanced life
support division — to respond
to a staged emergency the Fire
Department set up in the Downtown
plaza between Jay Street
and Flatbush Avenue Ext., and
one onlooker enjoyed seeing
her colleagues handle the challenges
in different ways.
“Some people are a little
more calm, slower, and precise,
and others are just, the
adrenaline’s rushing and they’re
moving faster,” said emergency
medical technician Marcella
Rivera, who works at the nearby
Fire Department headquarters
on Flatbush Avenue Ext.
She watched as an all-women’s
team from Queens dealt
with an impromptu summer
party gone wrong, which had
several people with different
injuries, as well as a mannequin
out of sight behind a pool
that represented somebody that
had drowned.
In order to succeed at the
tournament, the paramedics
have to keep an overview of
the situation, according to another
spectator, who was there
to support his Fort Greene comrades.
“First of all, knowing how
many patients you have, not
having tunnel vision and being
open to any possibility and
any distraction, know how to
ignore it but also how to maneuver,”
said Jermaine Irving,
a paramedic at N. Portland Avenue’s
Station 31.
That station was one of
two Kings County competitors,
which also included Canarsie’s
Station 58.
The event is part of the national
EMS Week, which celebrates
the country’s bravest,
with different events around
the city, such as blood drives,
raising money for the community
and donating bicycles
to kids.
These kinds of events show
the complexities involved for
the brave spirits working in the
emergency services, accord-
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