A man was caught on camera breaking the window of a Kosher restaurant. Police are now looking into whether it was a hate crime.
Sonia RincónSonia Rincon is live on the Upper East Side with details on an attack on a Jewish-owned restaurant.Video showing a man breaking the windows of a Kosher restaurant on Manhattan's Upper West Side is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
The small shards of broken glass around the edge of the window at Rothschild TLV Restaurant are the only evidence left of what happened early Wednesday morning.A vandal can be seen on surveillance smashing the window with an object wrapped in black.It was at 2:10 in the morning. Owner Mike Kalbo was not at all surprised to wake up to the news.
"I understood what happened, I mean right away. It was nothing to figure . We see what's going on in New York," he said. It's not the first restaurant or Israeli-owned business vandalized since pro-Palestinian protests denouncing Israel's actions in Gaza have become a daily occurrence.At Rothschild, a mezuzah along the side of the targeted window is the biggest visual clue that it's a Jewish establishment."It made us feel very reminiscent of Kristallnacht in the 30s," Esther Buterman, a regular patron, told Eyewitness News.She says if the vandals want to scare anyone, it won't work.
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