"CROWN HEIGHTS - POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING WHY A MAN REPEATEDLY SLAMMED HIS CAR INTO the Chabad World Headquarters on Eastern Parkway on Wednesday night, in what the NYPD is calling a possible hate crime. There were no injuries reported as of press time Thursday morning, and the driver, who was wearing shorts in frigid weather, was arrested on the scene."
"Witnesses who were present posted on social media that the driver reversed his vehicle and then struck the building a number of times. Pictures and a video posted on X showed a black Honda Accord sedan with partially-blurred New Jersey plates on an icy driveway leading to doors below street level. People in the building for daily evening prayers were evacuated."
"The incident took place on the 75th anniversary of the date that Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson became the leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, which aims to renew interest in religious Judaism. Schneerson established an outreach network of religious, educational and social service programs to help Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. The 770 Eastern Parkway complex also has strong Brooklyn history: Originally constructed in 1933 as a medical building, it became part of Chabad in 1940."
A man repeatedly slammed his car into the Chabad World Headquarters on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, prompting a police investigation as a possible hate crime. There were no injuries reported and the driver, who was wearing shorts in frigid weather, was arrested at the scene. Witnesses posted that the driver reversed and struck the building several times, and images and video showed a black Honda Accord with partially blurred New Jersey plates on an icy driveway leading to doors below street level. People in the building for evening prayers were evacuated. The event occurred on the 75th anniversary of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson becoming Chabad’s leader; the 770 Eastern Parkway complex dates to 1933 and joined Chabad in 1940.
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