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Hate Crime Investigated Near Yeshiva University The NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating anti-Semitic comments written in an elevator near Yeshiva University. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein Manhattan Voice February 5, 2024 MANHATTAN - Cops are looking for a woman who alleged scrawled hate messages inside an elevator across from Yeshiva University. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating. At around 2:30 pm on January 15, someone wrote an “anti-Semitic statement” in marker inside an elevator at 497 West 182nd Street.  Following an investigation the NYPD released surveillance video of the suspect.  The suspect is described as a female with a slim build and a light complexion. She was last seen wearing a checker-colored jacket, a green beanie cap, a blue surgical mask, long earrings, and camo-colored pants. Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-

Anti-Semitic Rants in Unprovoked Attack Police are searching for this man with a bicycle and trailer with a sign that reads "hungry disabled." The suspect is wanted in connection with a hate crime assault. By Dan Gesslein Manhattan Voice December 15, 2022 MANHATTAN - A man claiming to be homeless and disabled, is being sought by police for attacking an Upper East Side man and shouting Anti-Semitic remarks near Central Park.  At around 7:30 pm on December 14, a 63-year-old man was walking to the Central Park entrance at Terrace Drive and East Drive. Suddenly the man was struck from behind and he fell to the ground. The elderly man chipped his tooth and suffered a broken hand.  As the victim tried to get up, his attacker began shouting Anti-Semitic remarks before he hopped on his bike with his attached trailer. The victim told police that a sign on the back of the bike trailer read “Hungry Disabled.”  The victim went to a nearby hospital by private means. He was lis