HOBOKEN – In a town where the first Jewish mayor was elected last November, an act of graffiti that police are labeling a bias crime occurred some time before Wednesday morning, according to a police report.
According to the report, filed Wednesday, an unknown person spray-painted the word “JEW” with an arrow pointing toward a second-floor window of a four-story brick residential building in central Hoboken.
The incident was labeled “criminal mischief” and a bias incident in the report.
The graffiti was reported by a man who walked into Police Headquarters Wednesday morning and said he was insulted by it, according to police. However, it was not known whether the man lived in the building. Police said they attempted to contact people living in the building but were unable to do so Wednesday morning.
The graffiti was written in 12-inch letters, according to the report.