Windsor Terrace Hate Crime Alleged At Pro Diver's House

Lenny Speregen

Around 2 a.m. on Tuesday, Lenny Speregen awoke to the sound of rocks and eggs being thrown at his house in Windsor Terrace; witnesses say the thugs, who escaped, where shouting anti-Semitic slurs. Speregen is a professional diver who recently shared stories about all the weird stuff he's seen in the city's rivers. He tells the Daily News, "This came out of left field. I feel 40% anger and 60% fear. My family lives here." Seriously, WTF, Brooklyn?

This is the second report of an anti-Semitic hate crime in Windsor Terrace in a month, and there have been others in Bay Ridge, Boerum Hill, and Clinton Hill. In September, not far from Speregen's home, someone sprayed "F--- Jews" on a Jewish Center's sign. The day before, someone broke into the Brooklyn Heights First Unitarian Universalist Church, scrawling, racist, homophobic, anti-Arab, and anti-Semitic messages along with "White Power—We Will Be Back." In the other neighborhoods, hundreds of hand-written "Kill Jews" cards have littered the sidewalks .

Speregen says that when he went outside to confront the haters, they ran away, but then they came back when he went to get a brush to clean up the mess. It's unclear exactly what happened then, but it does not appear that he was physically attacked. Police are investigating the incident, and Speregen says, "It surprises me, I wouldn't have suspected it from this neighborhood." Which leads us to believe Speregen's has never tried going in Farrell's.

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By John Del Signore in News on October 9, 2009 11:40 AM

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danomite8

Farrell's is irrelevant. Rock and egg throwing is a young man's game, and I've never seen a young man in Farrell's. Windsor Terrace is changing very quickly. Not everyone likes it. So they blame it on the Jews. It's the same old story. They can't win.

just saying

It's just another typical redneck bar. Nothing particularly special about it aside from the fact it's been in business for around 75 years. And also that the bar's owner killed himself a couple years ago by jumping off the Verrazano Bridge.

Qraymond

This is a problem.

bklynbagel

i've been to farrells and didn't have any issues with the people there.. racists attacks usually happen by cowards in the middle of the night.. not in a crowded bar, that would be too obvious

ProcedureTurn

whats farrells? a KKK hangout? Where is it and why doesnt this diver want to go there?

wac0202

bar in WT, hangout for cops and yankee fans, so, yeah, pretty much

books

its funny how you people view Farrell's. its normal bar for normal people like all the bars in that area used to be. I dont know what the editor was trying to imply...its a anti-semitic bar? - a tough bar? - what?