The NYPD Hate Crimes Unit is investigating after a swastika was scrawled on a poster of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a Brooklyn subway station.
Commuter Chevi Friedman took a photo of the defaced poster on Tuesday morning at the Nassau Avenue G train station in the Greenpoint neighborhood, tagging the mayor's office, the MTA, NYPD and other accounts.
'What is going to be done about this?' she wrote in the tweet, which is no longer available because her account has been set to private, according to WNBC-TV.
The defaced poster displays Ginsburg's face prominently to advertise a new pictorial book about the 85-year-old justice, The Unstoppable Ruth Bader Ginsburg: American Icon, by Antonia Felix.
Commuter Chevi Friedman took a photo of the defaced poster on Tuesday morning at the Nassau Avenue G train station in the Greenpoint neighborhood
The photo shows that the image was defaced with the scrawled words 'Die, Jew b***h.' Additionally, a swastika within a circle was drawn over the image of Ginsburg's mouth.
The NYPD responded to Friedman's tweet with a statement saying that the department's Hate Crimes Unit was investigating, adding 'There is no room for hate in NYC.'
In its own tweet, the Hate Crimes Unit added: 'Hate Crime Task Force is currently on scene investigating ANTI-SEMITIC vandalism at the Nassau Ave station on the G line. Thank you to all community members for alerting the NYPD.'
The MTA said in a statement that it had immediately removed the offensive graffiti as soon as police detectives had gathered the evidence they needed.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio took to Twitter to express his outrage at the incident.
