NYPD investigating alleged antisemitic stabbing, 2nd assault in under 24 hours

NEW YORK — The NYPD on Wednesday said it was investigating an alleged antisemitic stabbing, the second high-profile attack on Jews in under 24 hours in the city.

Video released by the Crown Heights Shomrim neighborhood watch group on Tuesday showed a man in a black jacket repeatedly lunging at the chest of another man with an object in his hand.

The local COLlive news site, focused on the Chabad community in Crown Heights, and Yaacov Behrman, a Crown Heights community leader, said the victim was Jewish.

The NYPD told The Times of Israel that the incident took place at around 4:10 p.m. at Kingston Avenue and Lincoln Place in Crown Heights, a block away from Chabad’s World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway.

Officers responding to the scene found a 35-year-old man with a stab wound to the chest. The injured man was transported to the hospital in stable condition. There were no arrests and an investigation was underway, the NYPD said.

The NYPD said on Wednesday that the incident was being investigated as a hate crime assault and that the attacker “made anti-Jewish statements and then proceeded to stab the victim in the chest with a knife.”

“Evil, hateful, antisemitic violence must come to an end. We cannot let this hate persist in our city, and we will never back down. We are praying for this man and his family,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams wrote on X.

The incident followed another alleged antisemitic assault, also captured on video, on Monday night. In that incident, footage showed two men approach a group of Hasidic men and begin hurling insults at them.

One of the Jewish men then appears to step in between the two aggressors and the other Jewish men, at which point the assailants turn on him and threaten to “teach [him] a lesson,” before one grabs him by the neck.

“The fuck you doing?” the attacker can be heard demanding of the Jewish man as he pushes him backwards. “I’ll kill you!”

“I’ll kill one of [you],” the attacker says again, before letting go of the man’s neck.

This is a deeply disturbing hate crime targeting young Chabad men on a train in New York, whose only act was sharing the light of Hanukkah.
Such acts of hatred must be unequivocally condemned, and those responsible must be held accountable. pic.twitter.com/FB9vz3MZcO

— Danny Danon ???????? דני דנון (@dannydanon) December 16, 2025

COLlive said the targets were a group of Chabad members who were returning to Brooklyn from Jewish outreach activities in Manhattan’s Union Square.

Chabad, which has centers in cities worldwide, also organized the Hanukkah event that was targeted in this week’s mass terror shooting in Sydney, Australia.

Adams said the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Division was investigating.

Jews are targeted in hate crimes in New York City far more than any other group, according to NYPD data.

So far this year, there have been at least 287 antisemitic incidents reported to police, out of 516 total hate crimes, according to a tally of NYPD data. The antisemitic incidents amount to 56% of the total hate crimes in the city.

The figures are preliminary and subject to change if, for example, an incident that had appeared discriminatory turns out to have had another motivation.

In some other recent incidents over the weekend, a menorah in Queens was vandalized with spray foam and a man went on an antisemitic rant in a Manhattan restaurant.

“You ugly fucking Zionist. We will rid this country of fucking you by all fucking means,” the man shouted at a woman.

“F*ck you, Jew”

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At the table next to me at a restaurant in NYC tonight, this happened. A guy was ranting about Jewish people and Zionists, quoting Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens along the way, and a Jewish girl next to them intervened

He then freaked out (she sent me her… pic.twitter.com/L3NUu02tQK

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