Metro

Man casually wears swastika necklace on the subway

This subway rider is freaking out his fellow straphangers by openly wearing a swastika necklace.

The man, who was photographed at the Queensboro Plaza station last week, proudly wore the hate symbol around his neck while he waited for a train.

Craig Lenti, 39, of Astoria, who snapped the photo of the older man, said when he saw the swastika around the man’s neck, he didn’t want to believe it.

“I was disgusted, but I couldn’t believe what I saw, so I walked back and forth past him a couple of times to make sure that’s what it was and there started snapping pictures,” he said.

Lenti took the photos to draw attention to potential neo-Nazis in New York.

“As New Yorkers, we get complacent and think that it doesn’t happen here,” he said. “But it does happen here, and we have to look out for it.”





Lenti posted the photo on Instagram, garnering comments from angry New Yorkers.

“He’s gonna catch a beatdown walking around with that,” wrote newyorkdylan. “Can’t say I feel bad.”

Hate crime in the subway system has shot up by 136 percent from a year ago, according to stats kept by the NYPD. Much of that uptick in hate crime this year has been in the form of people drawing swastikas on trains and platforms, say cops.





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