The NYPD’s hate crime division is investigating an attack on a Jewish couple on the Upper East Side.
Witnesses say the attackers pulled up in two motorcycles and five cars Monday night outside this apartment building on 63rd Street near 2nd Avenue.
They say some were waving Palestinian flags.
Police say they yelled anti-Semitic slurs at a 27-year-old man walking with his wife.
They hit her with a water bottle and punched him in the head, cutting his ear.
NY1 spoke with people who live in the couple’s building.
“I live here for 18 years. It never happened before. I’m Jewish and I’m worried,” one area resident said.
“It’s always a sad situation when we’re fighting with each other over things that are, at the time, meaningless,” another said.
“It’s immaturity and stupidity, in my opinion. It’s unnecessary,” said a third.
Witnesses say the man recorded some of the incident on his cellphone, and even caught the license plates of some of the cars.
So far no arrests have been made.
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