The scene of a car-torching, anti-Semitic hate crime in an Orthodox stretch of Brooklyn was littered with 27 empty Corona bottles, officials said yesterday.
The bottles will be tested for fingerprints and DNA, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said, as police try to figure out who set the fires on Ocean Parkway while scrawling swastika and messages of hate.
The early Friday attack stunned the normally quiet neighborhood — and came just a day after the 73rd anniversary of the 1938 Nazi night of destruction known as “Kristallnacht.”
“Whoever did this are intelligent bigots,” Hynes said. “Somebody was trying to make a statement. They were intelligent enough to know about Kristallnacht.”
Police in the 66th Precinct stepped up patrols in the neighborhood, and a private-security force hired by the community, City Investigations, promised to station a watchful eye at the scene of the attack.
The horrifying incident, which included “KKK” being scrawled on a van and “F–k Jews” written on the sidewalk, unnerved residents.