Two teens arrested after swastikas painted on playground in Jewish area of Brooklyn [View all]

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Two teenagers were arrested Thursday after dozens of swastikas were painted on a playground in a predominantly Jewish area of Brooklyn, New York, this week, the New York Police Department said.

The 15-year-olds both face aggravated harassment charges, with one of the teens also facing a charge of criminal mischief as a hate crime, the NYPD said.

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Officers responded on Monday to a call at Gravesend Park in the southwest Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park, where they found about 16 swastikas painted in red on slides, walls and the ground.

Then on Wednesday, police responded to another call and found about 57 swastikas drawn at the same playground in red, blue and yellow. “Adolf Hitler” was also scrawled in paint.

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“I am sickened by this antisemitic vandalism in Borough Park,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement. “Antisemitism has no place in our city, and I stand shoulder to shoulder with the Jewish New Yorkers who were targeted.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/us/new-york-swastikas-playground-investigation