Possible Hate Crime as Jewish, Asian Man Stabbed in New York City

He then went to West 86th Street, the official said, where he approached another man, Yezhak Grunhaus, 50, and stabbed him once in the chest.

“Nava Silton, who was speaking with the victim inside the Jewish Center on West 86th Street before the attack, said she ran out and spoke to two witnesses who heard the suspect say ‘Allah Akbar’ before the stabbing,” noted NY Post.

What we know

According to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the matter, the attacker walked up to the first man, Chok Sung, 57, on West 84th and Central Park West and stabbed him in the back. “The New York City Police Department said that anti-Jewish hate crimes were up 70.8% in the city last month compared to May 2025,” noted the outlet.

Authorities reported that a 57-year-old man was reportedly attacked near West 84th Street and Central Park West just after 1:30 p.m. local time. Raul Morales, the suspect, is in custody, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) told Fox News Digital.

Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) said that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is “obsessed” with Israel “And he’s often parroting Hamas’s own talking points.

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Police officers responding to a 911 call about an assault in the area arrived on West 84th Street to find Mr. Operative Telegram Feed Mamdani slow to respond to suspected antisemitic stabbing as Hochul, other NY officials condemn attack https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mamdani-slow-respond-suspected-antisemitic-stabbing-hochul-ny-officials-condemn-attack 2026-07-23T23:30:21.050Z Rep. 12, 2026. (John Lamparski/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, another member of the New York City Council, more pointedly laid blame with Mamdani. "If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5M, check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs — because you've got mail.

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Both men were taken by emergency medical workers to Mount Sinai’s Morningside location, where they are expected to survive, the police said. It’s like they send him talking points in the morning and he just reads them from the podium.” Gottheimer said, “Well, the Mayor’s clearly obsessed with this issue. We’ve got people, Iranian leadership that have been in New York, obviously, Iran, a top enemy of the United States of America, the regime there, killing Americans, including soldiers who recently have been killed in our armed services, and, yet, he says nothing about that, right?

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Instead, he made a post on his recent housing tax plan, a strategy to dissuade wealthy New Yorkers from purchasing and keeping an outsized number of residences. Today, we sent notification letters to property owners, letting them know that our new pied-à-terre tax is coming soon," Mamdani wrote at 3:55, almost two and a half hours after the attack.