A swastika was found at a Brooklyn playground just days after anti-Semitic messages were written in chalk all over a schoolyard in Queens, police and public officials said Monday.
The 3-inch-by-3-inch swastika was discovered late Sunday under the slide inside Brighton Beach Playground near Brighton 2nd Street and Brightwater Court in Brighton Beach, police said.
“Are swastikas in playgrounds the new normal?” City Councilman Chaim Deutsch wrote on Twitter. He later added: “Enough is enough. It’s way past time to #TakeAction.”
Deutsch is not the only public official to speak up about recent anti-Semitic attacks.
On Friday, City Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz also tweeted about dozens of swastikas and hateful messages found scrawled in chalk in the schoolyard of Rego Park’s PS 139.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incidents. No arrests have been made.