Nearly two years after the Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes began giving grants to community groups, they can’t say who’s received that money or what it’s achieved.
Anti-Semitism
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Amid Hate Spike, A Crown Heights Leader Pleads: ‘We Have to Do Better’
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. On Christmas Day, Richard Green, head of the Crown Heights Youth Collective, walked toward his rundown white van with a group of cops after giving out toys to kids at Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital. […]
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Amid Spree of Hate Crimes, City Looks to Past Offenders for Mentorship
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. The de Blasio administration is considering recruiting people who committed anti-Semitic violence or vandalism as teens to help educate youths in a bid to stem a rising tide of hate crimes against Jewish New […]
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Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes Complaints in Subway See Dramatic Rise
Additional reporting by Reuven Blau Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Reports of hate crimes targeting the Jewish community are surging in the subway, according to police statistics, a troubling trend that mirrors what’s bubbling outside of the transit system. […]