NYPD says Jews in city targeted in hate crime per day last month

New York cops report 31 antisemitic cases in January, representing 54% of all bias incidents

NEW YORK — Jews in New York City were targeted in 31 alleged hate crimes last month, an average of one incident per day, according to NYPD data released on Monday.

The antisemitic incidents accounted for 54% of the 58 total hate crimes reported to police in January.

The total for last month marked a 182% jump over the same period last year, but was a decrease from the 40 antisemitic incidents in December. January was the city’s first month under Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration.

The rate of antisemitic incidents regularly fluctuates due to factors including protest activity and the weather.

Last month, there was one bias incident related to age, five against Asians, two targeting Black people, two motivated by gender, one against a Hispanic people, seven targeting Muslims, three against other religious groups, five motivated by sexual orientation, and one targeting white people.

The numbers are preliminary and subject to change after investigation if, for example, an incident that appeared to be driven by hatred turns out to have had other motivations. Hate crime convictions are relatively rare.

Hate crimes are subject to steeper penalties than non-bias incidents because hate crimes are seen as targeting an entire group.

Major crimes such as murder, robbery, shootings and felony assaults were down overall in the city last month, continuing a downward trend in violent crime.

Jews are regularly targeted in hate crimes in the city more than all other groups combined. The 330 antisemitic incidents reported to police in 2025 amounted to 57% of the 576 bias incidents in the city, according to NYPD data.

Additionally, Jewish security officials and hate crimes experts have said many incidents are likely not reported to police.

In some of the incidents last month, two teenagers were charged for scrawling 73 swastikas on a playground used by Jewish children; a rabbi was punched in the face on Holocaust Remembrance Day; and a driver smashed his car into an entrance of the Chabad Hasidic movement’s world headquarters.

Members of the New York City Council last week announced a new Task Force to Combat Antisemitism and introduced legislation meant to rein in antisemitism, part of a push by the Jewish New York City Council speaker, Julie Menin.