Stabbing Near Chabad Headquarters Investigated as a Possible Hate Crime

A 35-year-old man was stabbed on Tuesday near the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in what the police are investigating as a possible hate crime.

The police on Wednesday were seeking a man they believed was responsible for the assault, which they said appeared to take place after the man made antisemitic comments.

In a social media post on Tuesday night, Mayor Eric Adams said that “evil, hateful, antisemitic violence” must end. “We cannot let this hate persist in our city, and we will never back down,” he wrote.

The victim, whose name has not been released by the police, was walking that afternoon near the intersection of Kingston Avenue and Lincoln Place, around the corner from the Chabad building, when an unidentified man approached and the two exchanged words in a “seemingly random” interaction.

Read more: New York Times