WILLIAMSBURG — A pair of teens yelling "South Side Jew" hurled chunks of ice at an Orthodox Jewish man who was walking down the street to his car, according to police and the victim.
The two teenagers started harassing the 49-year-old man near the intersection of Rodney and South Fifth streets while he was walking to Broadway on Tuesday just before 1:30 p.m., police said.
"Two kids, they [were] yelling 'South Side Jew,'" said the victim, who spoke with DNAinfo but declined to give his name. "I don't know what that means."
Maybe they meant, "because this is my [neighborhood], you're not allowed to be in it," he wondered after the incident.
The teens pursued the Williamsburg resident as he hurried down the street trying to get away from them, lobbing several chunks of ice in his direction, he said.
One piece of ice struck him in the back and another hit his car after he'd jumped inside, though he wasn't injured, he said.
Police were investigating the incident as a case of aggravated harassment and had referred it to hate crimes detectives, an NYPD spokesman confirmed.
No arrests had been made as of Wednesday, police said.
The incident marks at least the third anti-Semitic incident to take place in North Brooklyn since the election.
Swastikas and other pro-Nazi graffiti was spotted inside a housing project with a large Jewish population, and similar scrawls also turned up at the Newtown Creek Nature walk.
The incidents add to an overall uptick in hate crimes citywide that have taken place since Donald Trump's election.
Here's our map of all post-election hate crimes we've been able to verify.
