A hateful attacker spewed antisemitic comments at a 54-year-old Jewish man — before pummeling him and snatching his yarmulke on board a Brooklyn train this week, cops said.
The victim was riding a southbound N train passing through the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station around 10:45 a.m. Monday when the masked stranger punched him repeatedly while hurling the vitriol, police said.
The deranged assailant then grabbed the victim’s religious headwear before fleeing the scene, authorities said.
The victim was taken to SUNY Downstate Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition, police said.
Meanwhile, the attacker fled on a Manhattan-bound N train and was last seen at the Canal Street station, authorities said.
The brazen bias-fueled assault is being investigated by the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force.
The assailant is described as a man with a dark complexion and slim build, last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt, khaki pants, black jacket, black surgical facemask, black shoes, and carrying an orange bookbag.
The attacks came just a week after the conviction of an unhinged anti-white and anti-Jewish bigot on various hate-crimes — including one where he was caught on camera verbally attacking a white Jewish couple inside a 16th Street building in November 2023.
Anti-Jewish hate crimes accounted for more than half of the bias incidents reported in January and in February to the NYPD, department data shows.
On Jan. 28, a New Jersey man allegedly rammed his car into the iconic Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
A 32-year-old rabbi was also pummeled as he headed to his synagogue in Queens on Jan. 27.
Vile swastikas were painted in Gravesend Park — a playground frequented by Jewish children in Brooklyn — on Jan. 20, too, authorities said.
Anyone with information on the latest suspect’s whereabouts in the latest incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or on X @NYPDTips.