Avi Greenstein, CEO of BPJCC, spoke with BP24 about the horrific incident in the 18th Avenue Park.

My name is Avi Greenstein, CEO of the Burough Park Jewish Community Council. It was a horrible event and a resemblance of hate that this uhizes and uh it happened and it happened again and uh been by young people that uh either don't know better or are being influenced by terrible rhetoric of anti-semitism that sadly has become normalized these days. But this is so horrible event. Um especially we have Holocaust survivors that are living in Bora Park and are seeing these reports or living outside of Bora Park but know what the the swastikas symbolizes and and and sadly uh this is such a terrible event. Now what we need to do is uh really to come together as a community and a very strong message uh to people in the community and outside the community that such types of hate will not be tolerated and that we are together. We are united. We're so thankful to the NYPD uh for for having our back and we are so grateful to the Barfak Sham who worked so closely with NYPD and through their system of cameras that they have in this community were able to actually help find uh identify the uh as it seems as as it's being reported um the people who are who who who did this. So, we're going to come together together and we're going to continue uh just bringing out awareness and standing together and grateful to Speaker Mannon for coming here today. Um and we will hopefully get through this.