BROOKLYN, NY — Residents in Windsor Terrace are up in arms after a pair of thugs pelted a house with eggs and rocks while shouting anti-Semitic slurs this week, witnesses said.
The alleged bias incident, which took place early Tuesday on Prospect Ave., is the second such crime to rattle the neighborhood in recent weeks - and comes on the heels of other high-profile anti-Semitic incidents across the borough.
Hate Crimes Up in Brooklyn
BROOKLYN, NY — Residents in Windsor Terrace are up in arms after a pair of thugs pelted a house with eggs and rocks while shouting anti-Semitic slurs this week, witnesses said.
The alleged bias incident, which took place early Tuesday on Prospect Ave., is the second such crime to rattle the neighborhood in recent weeks – and comes on the heels of other high-profile anti-Semitic incidents across the borough.
“This came out of left field. I feel 40% anger and 60% fear,” said Lenny Speregen, 49, who was awakened about 2 a.m. by eggs and rocks battering his bedroom window and front door.
“My family lives here,” added Speregen, a commercial diver and father of two grown kids.
On Sept. 22, a security camera at a nearby Jewish school caught a hatemonger spray-painting the school’s front with the words “F— the Jews,” school officials said.
Last month, several streets in Bay Ridge, Boerum Hill and Clinton Hill were blanketed with handwritten notecards bearing the words “Kill Jews.”
“I’m worried that anti-Semitism is on the rise in this area,” said Rabbi Moshe Hecht, who oversees the defaced school, Chai Tots, near Speregen’s home.
Speregen said the hatemongers ran away when he stormed outside to confront them but reappeared for more attacks when he went to get a brush to clean up the mess.
“It surprises me, I wouldn’t have suspected it from this neighborhood,” said Speregen, who moved in two years ago and thinks he heard the attackers yell an anti-Semitic slur.
Speregen called the cops after they left and filed a report. Cops are investigating the incident.
