Hateful vandals attack Rep. Adriano Espaillats office again after anti-Israel protests rock NYC

Hateful vandals smashed the glass facade of Rep.Adriano Espaillat’s Upper Manhattan office and flung red paint at it early Tuesday, the day after anti-Israel protests rocked the city.Photos show the paint dripping down the exterior of the office on West 181st Street near Bennett Avenue and pooling on the sidewalk — where the words “FREE GAZA” were scrawled in black.The Democratic congressman has been vocal in backing security funding for Jewish sites and speaking out in support of Jewish students attacked at such schools as Columbia University.“My name was on a flier of targeted sites that were going to be protested yesterday … but at night, folks came and got violent and vandalized the actual district office,” Espaillat told The Post on Tuesday.“They splattered red paint all over the glass, signs, sidewalk and there was broken glass everywhere,” he said.As many as four suspects used a hammer to bash the office’s front glass, according to police and the congressman.The vandalism was reported at 4:15 a.m., but Espaillat said it happened around 3 a.m.

He and his staff worked to clean up the mess during the daylight hours Tuesday.Espaillat said many of his staff, although not there at the time of the vandalism, have been left shaken — but won’t stop showing up for constituents.“I will be there tomorrow, I was there today, and I will be back tomorrow,” the pol vowed.The vandalism happened one year after Hamas’ brutal attack on Israel.

“It was very unfortunate and kind of abrasive that on the anniversary of Oct.7, when more than 1,200 people lost their lives in gruesome ways — you know, women were raped, children were killed, seniors were shot and killed — that instead of appealing for peace that they resorted to violence and vandalism,” Espaillat said of the destructive criminals.The early-morning crime also occurred fewer than two weeks after cops say a vandal spray-painted the windows and door of the same Espaillat office in ...