Authorities blasted out images of four punks who allegedly scrawled Nazi graffiti across five locations in Queens as religious leaders called the antisemitic crime spree “hatred directed against all of us.”
Footage released by the NYPD Tuesday showed four young men in baggy clothes walking down a street during their hateful vandalism that targeted two Jewish sites, two homes and a parked car.
The unnerving graffiti was reported predawn Monday into early morning with a woman even startled out of bed thanks to a loud noise around 1:30 a.m. when vandals spray painted a swastika on her window, cops revealed.
At around the same time, one of the unidentified suspects targeted Congregation Machane Chodosh and drew a swastika on the synagogue’s front-facing wall.
Other antisemitic graffiti was plastered on the Rego Park Jewish Center around 1:15 a.m. and a 54-year-old male resident found a swastika on his garage door around 9 a.m. when he got home, police said.A 68-year-old man said he found the Nazi graffiti on his car around 8:30 a.m. after parking the vehicle there the night before.
The hunt for the four perps comes as the city’s Commission on Religious Leaders decried the display of hate.
“Hatred against our Jewish brothers and sisters, indeed, hatred directed at any people, is hatred directed against all of us,” commission chair Archbishop Ronald Hicks said in a joint statement with commission president Rev. AR Bernard Sr. and vice president rabbi Joseph Potasnik.
“Such acts violate the sacred teachings at the heart of our faith traditions,” the statement said. “Vandalism of houses of worship fueled by antisemitism, or by any other form of religious hatred, is an assault on our shared humanity and a desecration of all that is holy.”
The vandalism spree has also prompted a chorus of outrage from New York pols, including Mayor Zohran Mamdani, City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Gov. Kathy Hochul.
The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is probing the incidents.
Anyone with information on the four suspects and incidents can call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-8477 or for Spanish, 1-888-577-4782.
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