New York Post

B’klyn vandal hits mosques

- Daniel Prendergas­t

A man vandalized two mosques in Brooklyn with a hammer over the weekend, police said.

Surveillan­ce video from outside the Beit El-Maqdis Islamic Center on Sixth Avenue near 62nd Street in Sunset Park shows the man smashing windows there at 5:20 p.m. Saturday.

He was then caught on video minutes later outside the United American Muslim Associatio­n on Eighth Avenue near 60th Street. He used a hammer to destroy the building’s doorbell, doorknob and mailbox.

The suspect (inset) is described as Asian and was last seen wearing a black coat with a hood.

The incidents are being investigat­ed by the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force.

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