Man Vandalizes Upper East Side Stores With Hateful Stickers: Cops

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The NYPD is trying to identify a man who has placed stickers with hateful statements and symbols on Upper East Side businesses, police said.

The man is wanted for committing a pattern of aggravated harassment as a hate crime for placing the stickers containing anti-gay, anti-black and anti-Semitic statements on three Madison Avenue stores since October, police said.

The first act of vandalism was noticed on Oct. 4. An employee of a jewelry store on Madison Avenue between East 75th and 76th streets noticed stickers with the hateful messages on a store window, police said. On Oct. 30 an employee of a clothing store on Madison Avenue between East 77th Street and 78th streets found a sticker with an anti-Semitic symbol placed on the store window.

The most recent vandalism occurred Dec. 2 at another jewelry store on Madison Avenue between East 75th and 76th streets, police said. A sticker with an anti-Semitic symbol was placed on the window.

Police believe that one man is connected to all three acts of vandalism. The NYPD released a photo of the suspect (seen above) captured on a security camera of one of the vandalized stores.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

Photo by NYPD