At least 11 swastikas were found Monday in Highland Park and Forest Park in Queens, the latest in a string of antisemitic vandalism incidents to strike the borough in recent weeks, officials said.

City Council Speaker Julie Menin condemned the discovery in a joint statement with Council Members Lynn Schulman and Joann Ariola, noting that the graffiti appeared exactly one week after similar vandalism struck two shuls and two private homes in Queens.

“This is yet another hateful incident meant to intimidate Jewish New Yorkers and divide our city,” Menin said. “We cannot and will not accept this as normal.”

The NYPD is investigating and the Parks Department said it will remove the graffiti as soon as possible.

Monday’s discovery comes one week after a coordinated overnight rampage in Forest Hills and Rego Park in which four suspects spray-painted swastikas and the word “Hitler” at five locations, including the Rego Park Jewish Center, Congregation Machane Chodosh, two private homes, and a car. One of the swastikas at Congregation Machane Chodosh — a shul built by refugees from Germany — was sprayed directly over a plaque honoring kedoshim murdered during Kristallnacht.

Jews in New York City were targeted in 60% of all confirmed hate crimes last month, according to NYPD data released Monday. In the first three months of 2026, antisemitic hate crimes surged 140%, and hate crimes overall in Queens were up 45%.

Local Jewish voices vented their frustration with city hall. “These incidents don’t seem to be calming down anytime soon when the Mayors ‘Office to Combat Antisemitism’ continues to be a token gesture rather than an actual government body that can work on hate crime prevention,” United Jewish Teachers head Moshe Spern, a Queens resident, told Belaaz. “When the Mayor actually begins to take this seriously then we will see the numbers go down.”

The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force, which is investigating both incidents, has released surveillance footage of four suspects wanted in connection with the May 4 rampage, described as young light-skinned men, three of whom were wearing hoodies. No arrests have been made in either case.

Menin, the first Jewish speaker of the City Council and herself a daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, pointed to the City Council’s Five-Point Action Plan to Combat Antisemitism as a legislative response to the wave of incidents.

“That’s why the Council passed our Five-Point Action Plan to Combat Antisemitism,” she said, “and why we’ll continue fighting for education and accountability.”