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Bigot leaves anti-Semitic fl iers in R’wood
BY MAX PARROTT
MPARROTT@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@RIDGEWOODTIMES
To their shock and horror,
Ridgewood residents discovered
hundreds of anti-Semitic fl yers
scattered around the Halsey Street L
station last week.
The flyers strewn across Norman
Street interposed the phrase
“worthless f**king cancer filled Jew”
onto a black and white aerial shot of
a man wearing a kippah with the
star of David on top.
This summer, hate crime incidents
have continued to spike across
New York City. It is the second
anti-Semitic act of vandalism in
the greater Ridgewood area in just
over a month.
In July, someone smeared a
swastika in what appeared to
excrement at a bus stop at Cypress
Hills Street and Myrtle Avenue.
Drew, a nearby resident who
asked not reveal his full name for
fear of retaliation, said that he
discovered the flyers around 4:30
p.m. and tried to pick them all up
and throw them out.
“There are very ignorant hatefilled
people out there to put in
such effort to make a flyer like this.
More than a hundred anti-Semitic fl iers were left scattered near the Norman Street entrance to the Halsey Street
stop on the L line in Ridgewood on Aug. 14. Photo via Google Maps
Someone actually went into some
sort editing program and spent
time designing this flyer, which is
really horrifying,” he said.
According to police sources, a
56-year-old man came to the 104th
Precinct around 8:30 p.m. with
a copy of the flyer and filed a
harassment complaint.
Drew also said that he saw police
officers monitoring the train stop
around 7:30 p.m. Police notified the
Hate Crimes Task Force about the
incident.
The investigation is ongoing.
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