Bias Incident on Carroll St., Police Apprehend the Suspect

At around 11:00pm a Jewish man residing on Carroll St between Schenectady and Utica was leaving his home to make his way towards Simchas Bais Hashuaiva had a glass bottle thrown at him followed by a racial expletive from a Black male. The victim who spotted an officer on a post at the corner of Schenectady and Carroll immediately made his way there and told the officer about the occurrence.

The officer beginning to investigate the incident was directed by the victim to an individual who he identified as his attacker. The officer made the arrest immediately and the victim is pressing charges, NYPD is charging the individual, who is in his 20s, with the commission of a hate crime. The entire incident from the occurrence to the arrest lasted less then 5 minutes.

Crown Heights Gets a Modern-Day Watch Tower

In the aftermath of a series of violent assaults on members of the Jewish community in Crown Heights, the police department has deployed a piece of modern technology that is based on an age-old defense tactic: the watch tower.

The “sky tower,” as police call it, stands about 25 feet high on the corner of Carroll Street and Troy Avenue. A police officer sits behind tinted windows on a swivel chair inside the compartment, where he can monitor video feed from four cameras, and even the wind speed from a meter on the roof. This is the first time the police have used the tower for crime prevention. It was acquired earlier this summer and has been used at the West Indian Day parade and for security during President Bush’s visit to ground zero.

Crown Heights outrage

Gang attack on Hasid teen bias, protesters say

A 16-year-old Hasidic boy walking home from a Brooklyn synagogue on Yom Kippur was jumped by a group of teens who called him a “f—–g Jew,” witnesses and his family charged.

Mendel Chesney was heading home about 10 p.m. Sunday when he was attacked by as many eight young men on Carroll St. in Crown Heights, witnesses and police said.

“At first, I thought they might be playing around, so we walked over to where the crowd was. That’s when I see the talaisim [prayer shawls] and know it’s a Jewish person and hear someone say, ‘You f—–g Jew,’” said Michael Gitchel, who lives nearby.