Bay Ridge unites against white nationalist recruitment
More than 250 people stood hand in hand on Sunday to denounce the appearance of a white nationalist group in Brooklyn.
A massive handmade banner promoting a white nationalist group’s website was discovered on Saturday hanging over a Belt Parkway overpass. The banner, tied to the 80th Street pedestrian overpass in Bay Ridge, was spotted days after posters for the same organization were found nearby, and as the city confronts a surge of anti-Semitic attacks.
The banner seen Saturday didn’t carry an explicit message of hate, reading only “Defend American Labor.” But it did display the web address for the nationalist group known as Patriot Front, one of a new crop of hate groups that relies on less overt messaging around heritage and patriotism in their recruitment efforts.