Crime & Safety

Anti-Semitic Subway Ranter Says She'll Throw Woman On Tracks: PD

The harassment at the Crown Heights station is among a string of anti-Semitic attacks in Brooklyn the last few weeks.

The harassment at the Crown Heights station is the latest in a string of anti-Semitic attacks in Brooklyn the last few weeks.
The harassment at the Crown Heights station is the latest in a string of anti-Semitic attacks in Brooklyn the last few weeks. (NYPD.)

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Police have revealed details about yet another anti-Semitic attack in Brooklyn last month, this time about a woman who threatened to throw another person onto the tracks during a hateful rant.

The rant began around 6:30 a.m. on Dec. 2 as a 41-year-old woman was waiting on the northbound platform at the Utica Avenue station, police said. Another woman started yelling at her, making unspecified anti-Semitic statements and threatening to throw her onto the tracks, police said.

The attacker's rant continued as both women got onto a 4 train until eventually the 41-year-old woman got off at Bowling Green, leaving the ranting woman on the train, police said.

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The victim was not injured form the incident. Police are looking for the woman who made threats on aggravated harassment charges.

The newly-detailed attack is one of many anti-Semitic incidents last month, most of which happened in Brooklyn.

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Others include a man threatening to shoot up a religious institution in Crown Heights, three women slapped in the face by another woman who admitted it was because they were Jewish and two young Hasidic Jewish boys getting punched as the exited an elevator in a Williamsburg apartment building.

The attacks led Mayor Bill de Blasio to announce a new anti-hate plan, including extra cops in several Brooklyn neighborhoods with large Jewish populations, a new anti-hate curriculum for city schools and that neighborhood safety coalitions would be started to try and prevent more attacks.

Anyone with information in regard to the identity of this female is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, or on Twitter @ NYPDTips. All calls are strictly confidential.

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