The NYPD is investigating two confrontations involving Jewish New Yorkers in Brooklyn, including a stabbing near the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Crown Heights.
Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said the first incident, which ocurred before the stabbing, was reported Monday night on a southbound 3 subway train and began with a jostle on the platform at Eastern Parkway and Nostrand Avenue.
“It starts out as a bump on the platform and an argument that escalates onto the train,” Kenny said, adding that detectives had reviewed audio and video of the encounter and “do not hear racial slurs ...