Hateful attack on pol’s Manhattan office

ALBANY — Hate-filled vandals left anti-Semitic messages for Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright after defacing the lawmaker’s Manhattan district office.

A staffer found the storefront windows of the Upper East Side office splashed with white paint and discovered a vulgar note early Tuesday morning.

“Rabbi pays ... Rebecca in cash and kind,” the obscene letter read.

Seawright, who hosted a virtual town hall on combating anti-Semitism just last month and held a similar forum last year after swastikas were found at the nearby nonprofit Asphalt Green fitness complex, said police are investigating the vandalism.

“We will never be intimidated by this criminal act,” she said. “We have called for a hate crimes investigation. We stand before you today to denounce this disgraceful and hateful crime. We will remain vigilant.”

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) condemned the incident, noting that the government office was “defiled overnight with hate-filled and grotesque anti-Semitic language.”

“The Assembly majority has always been very clear that we have a zero-tolerance policy for any form of hate, including anti-Semitism,” Heastie said in a statement.

“We must ensure the safety of the staff that work in this office and the constituents that utilize it for services.”

Seawright, a Democrat first elected in 2014, is currently fighting to retain her seat after missing the deadline to submit her candidacy for the June primary.