NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A man was stabbed in the chest in a suspected anti-Jewish hate crime in Brooklyn this week, police said Wednesday as they investigate multiple antisemitic incidents in the borough.
The victim, a 35-year-old man, was walking at Kingston Avenue and Lincoln Place in Crown Heights at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday when the suspect came up and made anti-Jewish remarks to him, according to police.
He then took out a knife and stabbed the victim in the chest with it, police said.
The suspect fled the location on foot and was last seen heading towards Sterling Place and Albany Avenue, according to the NYPD, who released images of him Wednesday.
The victim was transported by EMS to NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County in stable condition.
The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the attack.
Tuesday's attack came hours after several Orthodox Jewish men were harassed and threatened on a 3 train Monday night in another incident in Crown Heights that's being investigated as an antisemitic hate crime. Video circulating online shows the victims, returning from a Hanukkah event and wearing traditional Jewish clothing, being grabbed and threatened by two men on the train around 8:30 p.m. near the Nostrand Avenue station.
The incidents come as the NYPD has already upped security at Jewish places of worship for Hanukkah, and in the wake of the terror attack at Bondi Beach in Australia that left at least 15 people dead.
"While there is currently no specific or credible threat to Hanukkah celebrations here, the NYPD will be out in full force at events and synagogues so that our communities can gather safely," the NYPD said in a statement.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.