NEW YORK — The NYPD on Wednesday said it was investigating an alleged antisemitic stabbing, the second high-profile attack on Jews in under 24 hours in the city.

Video released by the Crown Heights Shomrim neighborhood watch group on Tuesday showed a man in a black jacket repeatedly lunging at the chest of another man with an object in his hand.

The local COLlive news site, focused on the Chabad community in Crown Heights, and Yaacov Behrman, a Crown Heights community leader, said the victim was Jewish.

The NYPD told The Times of Israel that the incident took place at around 4:10 p.m. at Kingston Avenue and Lincoln Place in Crown Heights, a block away from Chabad’s World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway.

Officers responding to the scene found a 35-year-old man with a stab wound to the chest. The injured man was transported to the hospital in stable condition. There were no arrests and an investigation was underway, the NYPD said.

The NYPD said on Wednesday that the incident was being investigated as a hate crime assault and that the attacker “made anti-Jewish statements and then proceeded to stab the victim in the chest with a knife.”

“Evil, hateful, antisemitic violence must come to an end. We cannot let this hate persist in our city, and we will never back down. We are praying for this man and his........

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