Disturbing surveillance video has captured a mysterious bike-riding vandal who painted swastikas at a Brooklyn yeshiva early Wednesday morning, just hours after socialist Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win.
The footage shows a single figure wearing a wide-brimmed hat pedaling up to the Magen David Yeshiva in Gravesend around 6:30 a.m. The individual stops briefly to scrawl hateful graffiti before riding off.
“In light of the results from the election last night, everybody is super sensitive, and we’re afraid that this is going to be the new norm, where these people are going to be emboldened and think that they can get away with it,” Bob Moskiwitz, dispatcher for Flatbush Shomrim Patrol, told The Post.
“First of all, it’s hate graffiti,” he said. “I don’t care if it was on a mailbox or on a light pole—we would look into that, too. But here you have a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, a Jewish school with massive attendance. This is one of the largest schools in the community, and it’s very traumatic for the entire community.”
The hateful act came just hours after Mamdani, a Muslim and social Democrat, comfortably beat former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the mayoral race. This victory has sparked concern among some New Yorkers who are wary of the mayor-elect’s purported anti-Israeli rhetoric.
“It’s not a coincidence that this happened hours after Mamdani won the election,” one yeshiva parent said. “Anyone who claims that it is is lying to themselves or having delusions. This was a statement that with the new boss in charge, we finally get to show our true colors.” He referred to it as a sign of “Mamdani’s New York.”
Moskiwitz said the patrol received a call about the graffiti roughly half an hour after the incident. Two swastikas were painted on the main building and two more on the window of an adjoining building. The patrol then notified the NYPD.
The school responded by washing the swastikas off the windows and taping
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