NYC man stabbed by irate suspect in crime cops probing as possible antisemitic attack
A Jewish man was stabbed on a Brooklyn street corner Tuesday afternoon in what cops are investigating as a possible antisemitic assault on the third night of Hanukkah.
The 35-year-old victim was attacked by another man in what began as a “seemingly random ” verbal altercation between the pair in Crown Heights, police said, adding that they are investigating reports that the suspect made “antisemitic comments ” ahead of the knifing.
The victim — whom the Crown Heights Shmira Patrol identified as Jewish — was stabbed once in the chest at the corner of Kingston Avenue and Lincoln Place around 4 p.m., according to the NYPD.