Evil delivery
B’klyn businesses hit with Nazi hate notes
ANONYMOUS HATE mail filled with slurs and emblazoned with a swastika was mailed to nine city businesses, prompting an NYPD investigation, police said Wednesday.
The letters arrived this week at spots in Brooklyn and Manhattan, including three law firms, an international financial firm, a jewelry store, a Starbucks, a kosher meat market and a bakery.
Each message was identical and typed in capital letters, according to law enforcement sources.
The words “Make America Great Again!!!” appear beneath a large swastika. The unknown sender also uses the Nazi expression “Juden Raus,” meaning “Jews Out.”
The sickening object of the popular 1930s family game was to collect Jews and deport them by getting them off the board.
The letter also calls for AfricanAmericans and homosexuals to “burn in hell” and ends with “Christian identity is back.”
The investigation began after Abraham Weiss, the owner of Weiss Kosher Bakery on 13th Ave. in Borough Park, contacted the district’s assemblyman, Dov Hikind, who in turn called police.
“I don’t think there’s a place in this world for anti-Semitism and bigotry — just hating for no reason and sending such things,” said Weiss, whose sister discovered the disturbing note and told him about it after he returned Tuesday from a trip. “It’s bothering. It’s not a good feeling.”
Law enforcement sources told the Daily News the return addresses are connected to a location in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
Paul Freund, assistant manager for Satmar Meat & Poultry Market on Utrecht Ave., which is around the corner from the bakery, said he received the same letter on Monday.
“To me, in 2017, you’re not supposed to get a letter like this,” said Freund. “It’s a shame.”
Three Sheepshead Bay law firms also were targeted. The Manhattan locations are the Israel Economic Mission on Second Ave., a Starbucks on W. 145th St., the Harlem Business Alliance on Lenox Ave. and Numero Uno Jewelry store on W. 16th St.
Police were working to track down the sender, with Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez’s office also investigating.