Police are increasing their patrols of Jewish neighborhoods in New York following a spate of anti-Semitic attacks. The New York Police Department will keep a close watch on Jewish areas, particularly in Brooklyn, following a series of incidents in which tires were slashed in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park and swastikas were scrawled in both Brooklyn and Queens.
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