Hateful Halloween: Garden Place Vandalized With Swastikas

By on October 31, 2018 3:18 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Crime, Halloween, News

For those who haven’t heard yet, Garden Place – the street where everyone takes their kids for tricks and treets today – was vandalized last night with badly (and incorrectly) drawn swastikas, and the n-word (because why not just throw that in there, too). It’s shocking, but this isn’t the first time this has happened in Brooklyn Heights. According to the NYPD via Gothamist, “there have been a total of 142 anti-Semitic hate crimes reported this year, up from 126 at this time in 2017. It appears that 26 of those incidents occurred in the last three weeks alone. ”

One could only speculate wildly why that would be so </sarcasm>.

 

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  • http://www.yotamzohar.com StudioBrooklyn

    Who can we contact to help erase/paint over the vandalism, if it hasn’t been done yet?

  • Andrew Porter

    The Brooklyn Heights Association has just released the following statement:

    “The BHA condemns in the strongest possible terms the desecration of buildings in our neighborhood with symbols and words of hate that appeared on Garden Place.

    “We are grateful to the NYPD for its immediate response last evening and its ongoing investigation into those who perpetrated this act. We call upon all our leaders and people everywhere of good faith to resist the forces promoting messages and acts of hate in our city and nation.”

  • Jorale-man

    Wtf. I hope everyone here is registered to vote next week.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    Not surprising, the swastikas look like they were drawn by a drooling idiot in a padded cell.

  • Banet

    It was apparently Inc half so I imagine it was removed easily after the authorities documented it.

  • http://www.yotamzohar.com StudioBrooklyn

    Reminiscent of the mis-drawn swastikas that appeared at Adam Yauch Park a couple years ago.

  • W.R.

    Last night at Halloween, a teenage boy wearing a pizza hat said to me in passing “you’re a jew” (at the corner of Willow Place and State), which led to chuckles among his friends. It was odd and the tone was unfortunate. For the mothers out there, if your boy had a Pizza hat costume, it is probably time for a talk.

  • Heights

    Just the mothers have a responsibility to educate their children? Are fathers incapable?

  • W.R.

    Good point. Dad’s are critical too. In this case the daddy should educate the little sh!t’s bottom with a stout leather belt! ;)

  • http://www.yotamzohar.com StudioBrooklyn

    Okay. Stop.

  • AEB

    Because it’s a man’s job to mete out violent punishment–which is a valuable teaching tool, right?

    It never stops, does it? The will to inflict physical pain, that is.

  • Herman on Henry

    How is registering to vote going to change anything?

  • Jorale-man

    Well, to spell it out: Trump has brought the bigots out of the woodwork, by giving them a feeling that this sort of thing is socially acceptable now. And Republicans have enabled him every step of the way. A Democratic-controlled House will serve as a check on Trump’s lies, bigotry and recklessness. But that will only happen if people get out and vote on Tuesday.

  • Herman on Henry

    You couldn’t be more wrong. Anti-semitism will be around no matter who controls the House. Blaming this on Republicans is just contributing to the divisiveness.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    Except, bigotry and hatered are most often learned at home.
    Perhaps its mommy and daddy that need the belt!

  • EastCoastJ

    Vote Republican. Even James Polite who was just arrested for threatening anti-Jewish grafitti in Brooklyn was a Democrat operative. What does that tell you ?

  • EastCoastJ

    Black Democrat was arrested. James Polite.

  • Andrew Porter

    Headline in the Sunday NY Times: “Man’s Struggles With Mental Illness and Addiction Preceded Hate Crimes Charges, Friends Say”.

    So much for your claims that he was a “Democrat operative’>

  • EastCoastJ

    The Sunday NY Times. Yeah…that’s a fair source. You’re denying he worked for Christine Quinn who he met at the Obama rally ?

  • EastCoastJ

    Surrre they do.

  • http://www.yotamzohar.com StudioBrooklyn

    I think mental illness can account for the portion of the journey where a racist goes from thinking hateful and irrational things to scrawling them on the wall of a place of worship (or a garage).

    Given what we know about mental illness, addiction, racism, and other forms of antisocial bigotry, I find it impossible to accept the implication that this story begins or ends with mental illness and addiction.

  • EastCoastJ

    That guy is trying to make it end there because the story didn’t go how he wanted.

  • EastCoastJ

    Speaking of the Times, remember when they said the Duke lacrosse guys definitely gangraped that poor stripper?.

  • http://www.yotamzohar.com StudioBrooklyn

    You seem to know an awful lot about this guy’s motives. Care to elaborate?

  • EastCoastJ

    He wanted the culprit to be a white Republican for whatever effect it might have on the election (preferably good for the Dems). Since it turned out to be a culprit so definitively from his “side”, he wants the story squelched.

  • EastCoastJ

    Sometimes it’s hard to guage where mental illness leaves off and antisocial behavior begins, yes. And the two aren’t mutually exclusive.

  • Andrew Porter

    Ooh, a case of “but-what-about…”

    I’m not going to talk to a troll who can’t even use their real name.

  • EastCoastJ

    You talk to plenty of people who don’t use their real name, troll. And the NYT is only good for the crossword. Better luck next time there’s an alleged hate crime.

  • EastCoastJ

    Couldn’t that statement be considered offensive to those suffering from mental illness ?

  • http://www.yotamzohar.com StudioBrooklyn

    So by “he” you mean the journalist who wrote the article Andrew referred to? You think he fabricated the perpetrator’s backstory, or that it was otherwise irrelevant, because you favor a silly conspiracy theory? Are you unwilling to confront the anti-human content of what was scrawled on the synagogue walls and the garage in Garden Place, and the social mechanisms currently at play in propagating those ideas? Because that’s what’s being discussed.

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