Police are looking for the person who shattered the windows at Bais Rivkah School in Crown Heights.
Many people in the Jewish community say the vandalism is the latest in a string of incidents. Thankfully no one was injured, but many in Crown Heights are left upset over the broken windows.
Officials say the incident happened shortly after 8 p.m. Friday. They say someone smashed two ground-level windows at the Bais Rivkah Lefferts Yeshiva, located on the corner of Lefferts Ave and Brooklyn Ave.
The Yeshiva is a girls’ school for the Hasidic community, and every day there are many students coming and going. No girls were inside the religious school at the time of the broken windows.
Devorah Halberstam’s son, Ari was murdered on the Brooklyn Bridge in an act of terrorism in 1994. His mother told Eyewitness News that these crimes cannot be ignored.
Halberstam explained that while the pain of losing a child never goes away, it is important to understand why someone would do this in the first place.
Police are currently not treating this as a bias incident.
What makes me think this IS a bias crime is the intensity that this man shattered the glass. It wasn’t just random but the manner with which he did this destructive act seems to demonstrate that it was very calculated and again was done with some serious anger.
We NEED a mayor that will bring back broken windows….
These broken widows wouldn’t have happened!!!!!
We need Giuliani BACK!!!!!!!
Got get one…unless you campaign for a tough law and order guy, it seems really impractical.
No alarms went off?
Three things you could do today:
1- Buy and carry mace, or pepper spray ( Sabre 3 in 1 is one of the best..since you can’t order one online in NYS , you need to buy at a store. Google it. Learn how to use it.
2- Don’t look at your phone while walking in the streets of crown heights.
3- If you see a group of noisy teenagers simply cross the street.