Graffiti Praising ISIS Spotted At Inwood Subway Station

INWOOD, NY — Graffiti praising international terrorist organization ISIS was spotted at an Inwood subway station. A vandal spray painted the words ISIS and FTW — shorthand slang meaning "for the win" — on the wall of the northbound platform of the A train station on Dyckman Street and Broadway, police told Patch.

An MTA supervisor noticed the graffiti Monday around 4:30 p.m. and notified the police of its existence, an NYPD spokesman told Patch. Next to the ISIS graffiti an Egyptian eye symbol and five unreadable phrases were also pray painted on the wall, police said.

The NYPD is investigating the incident and have not made any arrests or named a suspect, police said.

The ISIS graffiti marks the second time this month that the Dyckman Street A train station has been vandalized with hate speech. In early January an Inwood resident spotted four swastikas scrawled on an advertisement in the station for the Jewish Museum.

"I was surprised, upset, and especially angry. I've lived in this neighborhood for close to 4 years and I have never seen anything anti-semitic here," Inwood resident Gaby Kogut told Patch at the time. "I hear that other people have, but I have not. I love this neighborhood and have always felt welcome and accepted."

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