A pair of goons flashed a knife as they yelled “Hey Jew boy” at a Brooklyn teen — the latest in a string of unsettling anti-Semitic incidents in the Big Apple, law enforcement sources said Tuesday.
The hate was spewed as the 17-year-old victim was walking on Avenue O near 8th Street at around 7:30 p.m. Monday, the sources said.
There are two synagogues within a block of where the incident took place.
The rise in anti-Semitic attacks, which Mayor Bill de Blasio has deemed a race-hate “crisis,” has prompted the administration to increase police presence in Jewish communities and around houses of worship.
There have been at least eight incidents citywide that are being investigated as anti-Semitic hate crimes, police said on Friday.