A hateful Nazi swastika displayed prominently at a popular Upper East Side tailor has sparked outrage among customers and neighbors.
But store owners say it was all a case of injustice.
Ignacio’s Tailor Shop on East 60th Street issued a flustered apology and told the Post that an employee who didn’t understand the meaning of the symbol sent a white shirt with a swastika armband to the dry cleaners. Ta.
Managers noticed the clothes, called police, and threw them away.
“For me, I feel this is a hateful situation. I’ve never seen a situation like this… They want to damage the business,” said Ignacio’s manager Jorge Hernandez.
City Council Member Julie Menin The photo has been posted A photo of the sinister symbol was taken by a terrified customer at Ignacio’s Tailor Shop on East 60th Street on Monday morning.
A friend of the customer forwarded the snaps to UES MPs.
“A constituent in my district alerted me to the fact that a UES tailor is queuing up to have this made. @NYPDnews is currently investigating,” Menin said.
Menin later told the Post that an employee at Ignacio’s store confirmed to her office that there was indeed a shirt with a Nazi symbol on it, pinned to a white dress shirt with two pins. He said he posted.
“They made sure they didn’t dry clean the item. It’s a symbol of hate. The police were called and they came to the store,” she said.
The snap quickly went viral on social media, sparking fear and condemnation.
A second photo of the customer’s ticket was then distributed, showing his name, phone number and Russian area code, but not the date of pick-up.
Jewish activist Lizzie Sabetsky accused the store of accepting a swastika dry-cleaning order.
Her husband’s grandmother survived Auschwitz.
“Both of her parents were murdered,” Savetsky said. I reposted the photo Posting Nazi clothing on Instagram.
“The tailor allegedly knew what the symbol was and took the job anyway,” Savetsky claimed in the post.
“I have no intention of letting the store go,” Sabetsky later said in an interview.
“Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is a black and white issue. Good and evil,” she said.
“This is the most evil symbol in history. This is tantamount to the genocide of my people!” said Savetsky, 38, a mother of three who lives near the tailor’s shop.
But some customers believe the store may have been fooled by a terrible prank.
The 20-year-old tailor boasts a client list posted at the entrance that includes luxury designers such as Armani, Chanel, Ralph Lauren, Christian Dior, Versace, Porsche, Gucci and Tom Ford.
Hernandez said a customer took a photo of the swastika before it drew attention, and it exploded on social media.
The manager said he was out to lunch when a couple who appeared to be one of the customers – a black man with braids and a white woman in her 30s – came to take off their swastika costumes.
He then called the number on the ticket, but could not get through, so he called the New York City Police Department on Saturday afternoon.
“I say, ‘What is this?’ I have to [my job]. It’s so disgusting, so bad. Something very bad happened. ”
The store has already been flooded with one-star reviews that reference the swastika, and Hernandez said she’s also received angry phone calls.
But one longtime customer, the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor who visited the store, said the tailor was a victim and had not taken part in what appeared to be a hateful stunt.
“It’s upsetting,” the woman said of the swastika incident. “That’s very bad.”
“I think someone planted it intentionally…I think it’s a message. We see it everywhere. It hurts so much.”
She referenced an episode of Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” in which Larry decides to dry clean a Ku Klux Klansman’s robe after he accidentally spills coffee on it. .
The dry cleaner took the robe and threw it away before Larry could retrieve it.
“Do you think that has anything to do with it?” she said, only half-joking. “please think about it.”
