A Jewish student from Yeshiva University was attacked on Thursday night at a train station near the university’s campus in Washington Heights, Manhattan.
Members of the local Jewish community reported that the student was assaulted by six to eight masked assailants at around 7:00 p.m. local time. They added that the assault took place at a blind spot with no cameras or police.
The victim is recovering in hospital. His exact condition is unknown at this time.
The incident comes amid a sharp spike in antisemitism in New York. According to newly released data by the NYPD, antisemitic hate crimes in New York City rose 182% year over year in January 2026.
The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force investigated 31 antisemitic hate crimes last month, compared to 11 in January 2025, and "accounted for more than half of all the hate crime incidents in January," the NYPD stated.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day at the end of January, a Queens rabbi was assaulted in the Forest Hills neighborhood in a suspected antisemitic attack.
A day later, a man was filmed repeatedly driving a car into the doors of a synagogue at the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
The year-on-year rise in antisemitic hate crimes coincides with the first month of the administration of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose election sparked concerns of growing antisemitism in the city with the largest Jewish population in America.
On his first day in office, Mamdani issued an executive order revoking all orders signed by his predecessor, Eric Adams, after September 26, 2024. This meant that the city’s recognition of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) was revoked, as well as an Adams order prohibiting mayoral appointees and agency staff from boycotting and disinvesting from Israel.