Recent antisemitic violence has Staten Island's Jewish community on edge
Police said the latest attack on Staten Island happened last week when a Jewish man was hit on the head with a baseball bat in Mariners' Harbor.
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Police said the latest attack on Staten Island happened last week when a Jewish man was hit on the head with a baseball bat in Mariners' Harbor.
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It happened Thursday just before 9:30 a.m. at a building at East 214th Street near Barnes Avenue.
Police have arrested a suspect who allegedly called a man a "dirty Jew" before bashing him in the head with a baseball bat on Staten Island.
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The victim, a 25-year-old driving instructor, told CBS New York he had just gotten out of his vehicle to let a student in when another man attacked him.
Police say the violence started from a gang-related dispute, but the victims were mostly innocent bystanders.
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said he's identified 11 people that were involved, and Thursday afternoon, seven of them were indicted.
It happened on a 2 train at Nostrand Avenue and Sterling Street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn just before 7 a.m.