Swastikas on Greenpoint restaurant latest in pattern of anti-Semitism, locals say
After the NYPD released footage of the vandals who drew swastikas on the side of a Greenpoint Mexican restaurant, residents are saying that racist graffiti is no new phenomenon in the neighborhood.
The footage, recorded on Dec. 22 outside the restaurant Acapulco and released Wednesday on Twitter, reveals the faces of two suspects, one of whom appears to be in the act of vandalizing the storefront.
“It’s one of the latest in a series of [hate crimes] that’s gone on here for years,” 20-year Greenpoint resident Heather Letzkus said of the incident. “It goes up and it goes down, but it’s always been here.”