Young Jewish Man Assaulted in Flatbush on Friday Night

Friday night at approximately 10:35 pm, a young frum man walking Avenue L between New York Ave and East 32nd Street was assaulted in an unprovoked attack, Flatbush Shomrim tell Hamodia.

As the young man was walking, a minivan pulled up and someone in the car got out and asked the young man where the nearest gas station is located. The young man replied that there were none in the area. The person kept following the young man, then punched him and went back onto the vehicle — all while the driver was filming what had transpired.

A few minutes after this incident, a 14-year-old Jewish boy was walking at Kings Highway and Nostrand Avenue where two people were filling up with gas. One of the people was filming and began yelling at the Jewish boy, who fled when the person began chasing him.

The incidents are being investigated by the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force.

“Make no mistake,” Mayor Eric Adams tweeted Saturday night, “an attack on our Jewish community is an attack on every New Yorker. We will catch the perpetrators of this assault.”

Also on Saturday night, Queens Councilman Lynn Schulman tweeted that vulgar antisemitic graffiti “was found by a local Rabbi after Shabbat tonight,” on a dental laboratory in Central Queens’ 112th NYPD precinct.

“There is no place for this disgusting anti-semitic vandalism anywhere,” Schulman wrote.

Adams tweeted in response to that incident, “We won’t let this vicious hatred go unanswered in our city.”

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