“Murder the Jew Tenant” Scrawled in Apartment Building
A white tenant recently moved into a mostly black apartment building on President Street in Crown Heights, not long after threatening hate graffiti was found scrawled on a hallway wall.
Police received a call after a hateful and threatening message was found scrawled in a hallway of 1146 President Street, an apartment building in Crown Heights. “Murder the Jew tenant” was the hate message which led to the police being called.
A quick investigation revealed that a new white tenant recently moved into the building. This tenant also happens to be Jewish, though not easily discernable and not observant.
Detectives from the Hate Crimes Taskforce have been assigned to the case and are investigating the incident as a bias attack.
1146 President Street is a small apartment building located between Nostrand and Rogers Avenue and houses 8 apartments. This building, along with 17 others in Crown Heights, was acquired by Dovi Sperlin back in 2001 from the City of New York’s Neighborhood Partnership Housing Development Fund.
The mission statement of the fund is “to facilitate the disposition and rehabilitation of certain city-owned parcels of real property.”
WHATS NEW?!
we cant keep puting are head in the sand,their is a problem of anti semitism within the african american community.
when african american leaders come to our community its something we should talk about with them, and if they want are vote, they should publicly commit to fight it.
Easy solution
Dovi Sperlin should rent to JEWS only & when he is accused of discrimination, he can point out exactly why. I don’t get why a private landlord doesn’t have the right to choose his tenants based on his own preferences.
Family friend
The facts are the couple that were given this apartment is a FRUM FAMILY. They bent over backwards to put a frum family in this building.
Mottel
And when you go to rent and someone says “No Jews or people with dogs allowed,” I’m sure you’ll get his preference as well.
Missing paragraph
You didn’t mention that these buildings were given to the vadd hakal to take care of.
But chanina handed them over to his brothers.
Sweet deal for sperlins!
How about renovating these buildings to ease the housing crunch for our own families?
some history
the City of new york gave away a lot of buildings to community organizations. including our dear Vadd hakall.
at that time all buildings went to the Sperlin family,
at that point a few members of the Vadd Hakall pushed back a “little” subsequently 2 other members got buildings for themselves, 3-4 went to freidfertig, and the rest went to sperlin.
for all those that care, this is way worse then what you think happened with fisher.
by fisher it was complete Private, in this case these property’s were give specifically to our community.
No Place for Hate
Congrats to all those who are lamenting ‘gentrification’, you may now understand just how dangerous it is to malign an entire group and feed into stereotyping and hate.
To the unfortunate and uneducated black bafoon who wrote that hate message it made no difference that the building he lives in is owned by a (self hating) Jew. All he saw was a white man moving into ‘his’ building and to him white = Jew.
This attitude must change. ‘Change’ is a natural part of life – not the kind President Obama promised, but the kind that happened in Crown Heights in the 1930’s and 40’s when the neighborhood changed from mostly affluent upper-class doctors and lawyers who relinquished this community in a mass exodus.
Today, some 70 years later, its changing again. Deal with it, make peace with it, and dont let your ugly prejudices come out as a result of it.
Hate has no place in our society, and if you cannot get over it then perhaps it is YOU who should ‘get out’!
Sperlin = Slum Lord
The Sperlin empire includes well over 100 properties in Crown Heights and the immediate surrounding areas. Most of which were gotten FREE by Chanina who funneled these buildings into his family’s control through his own control of the corrupt CHJCC.
Sperlins buildings have insane crime rate and ensure that our community cannot purge these lawless punks. The way Dovi would rather it stay so that he can keep feeding off the government and line his pockets with the millions of dollars he reaps from this sham.
It is high time an investigation is opened in how he managed to obtains such a vast empire – all through Neighborhood Partnership Housing Development Fund, the Housing Preservation Department and other such agencies.
impeach now!
If this is really the case, how did they get away with it all these years? Corruption & graft is illegal, unless our local politicians hush it up for votes. Think about that when you vote today & in the future.
should
there should be tolerance classes which are mandatory for anyone who is caught making such an offense. Its only part of the picture, but if its done right, it can help fill in some gaps. Some of these people are just trying to “fit in” to approval and peer support, which they can’t get at home since often there is minimal home / family life.
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You are so naive. Will you literally turn the other cheek when these racist animals hit you in the face? Time to grow up & face facts – no amount of “cultural tolerance” & education will turn these thugs into decent human beings. Get real. Throw them in jail & lose the keys.
Haters beware!
You have come to the wrong town. You have just outed a member of the tribe to tefillin-wearing, mezuzah-giving, lulav shaking Lubovs. Before you know it free rosh hashanah tickets will be mailed to him. He’ll be invited to our famous shabbas tables that are a feast for his soul and his eyes. That will lead to classes for him to discover his rich heritage. Before you know it one of our crown heights lookers will be his beautiful wife. And his brother in law – well… Lets just say he didn’t spend time in rickers for nothing. But now he is a full fledged Rabbi but at 6’2 and over 200 lbs of muscle you shouldn’t start up with him. But then watch out as some of the other tenants inhale the spice of Judaism. Not all jews are white you know. And some have ancestors who were slaves in the american south…..
Anonymous
Its a frum family
Family friend
I know the people that moved into that apartment this Sunday. I don’t know why the article had to mention that the family was White, Jewish and not observant, when in fact they are a Shomer Shabbos Couple with two wonderful children. I think before a story is written the facts should be checked.
black vs. white
If this was a white building and a black person moved in and found something about blacks written, the police and media would probably make more of an issue of it.
so much corruption
I never knew how corrupt the CHJCC is. This needs to be exposed. They are making money off buildings that are meant to benefit the community? This is outrageous!!
Judgey Judgey
“This tenant also happens to be Jewish, though not easily discernible and not observant.”
“Not easily discernible?” Meaning he does not wear a kippah or tzitsis perhaps? No black hat or suit? Ever see what our community’s women walk around wearing? Maybe their identity isn’t “easier discernible” either!”
“Not observant?” How do you know what this Jewish person observes? I thought “every Jew was filled with as many mitzvot as a pomegranate has seeds?”
Stop judging others according to how they look and dress!! Our community would not want it done to us!
(also you have “discernible” spelled wrong)
to # 16 Black vs White
If it was the other way around the media would “probably” make more of an issue of it? Probably? No definitly, front page news, with Reverend Al leading firery chants of no justice no peace!
Fulfill the Torah
The Entire Torah says to Love your neighbor as your self.