The Israeli restaurant on the Upper West Side was filled with longtime customers, politicians and community leaders in a show of solidarity after it was targeted by vandals.
NEW YORK -- Effy's Cafe, an Israeli restaurant on the Upper West Side, was filled with longtime customers, politicians and community leaders in a show of solidarity Monday after it was targeted by vandals. According to police, vandals spray painted two messages in green on the sidewalk outside the luncheonette on West 96th Street near Columbus Avenue on Saturday.They said 'Free Gaza' and 'Form line here to support genocide.
said the messages are considered political statements, which do not fall under hate crimes.
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