Authorities said a trio of vandals threw red paint at a Palestinian mission house and a luxury building on the Upper East Side on Wednesday morning, and hours later two arsonists set fire to two American flags outside the Israeli consulate.
Police said the group began their assault at about 5 a.m., throwing paint on the front entrance of a luxury building adjacent to Central Park on Fifth Avenue near East 65th Street.
In 2016, the building was dubbed “Manhattan’s most elite address,” home to billionaires and Wall Street executives. According to a Forbes report:.
Police said the three suspects threw buckets of paint at the United Nations Permanent Observer Mission to the State of Palestine on East 65th Street near Park Avenue around 6 a.m.
An NYPD patrol car parked in front of the building was covered in paint splatter, photos and video showed.
The New York Police Department has not released details about the vandalism of police vehicles.
Law enforcement sources said the suspect was part of a group of 15 protesters who fled in a white U-Haul truck and has not yet been captured.
Later, police said, two men set fire to two American flags in front of the Israeli Consulate General in New York on Second Avenue near East 42nd Street, during the height of the morning rush hour.
One of the men is in custody pending charges, police said.
The crime came hours after anti-Semitic vandals threw red paint at the homes of the Brooklyn Museum’s director and several Jewish board members, scrawling “blood on us.”
Director Anne Pasternak’s Brooklyn Heights apartment building was one of the buildings targeted by a vile mob who carried signs proclaiming, “Anne Pasternak Brooklyn Museum White Supremacy Zionist.”
The NYPD said all incidents are under investigation but could not immediately confirm whether they were related.
