A residence in Brooklyn Heights was vandalized with swastikas and racial slurs on Tuesday night, putting some residents of the quiet neighborhood on edge amid reports of surging anti-Semitic incidents across New York City and the rest of the country.

Photos shared with Gothamist show several crudely-drawn swastikas on a garage door on Garden Place, near State Street. The n-word was also written in chalk in multiple locations outside of the home, according to an NYPD spokesperson.

The hate messages were reported to police around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday night. They come just days after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting—the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history—which was allegedly carried out by a man who frequently posted Nazi symbols online.

I'm really sad to say this is not the first time I've seen swastika graffiti show up in the Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill area. Verandah Place was marked last year. It's scary. — Katie Okamoto (@okamoto__) October 31, 2018

During a briefing on Wednesday morning, Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said police have received several similar reports in recent weeks. "We’ve seen in the last month an increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes, particularly swastikas, on buildings in part of the city," he noted. "In last 28 days particularly, which is a little troublesome, we have seen an uptick in that category."

According to the Anti-Defamation League, there was a 57 percent rise in anti-Semitic incidents—including bomb threats, assaults, and vandalism—in the United States in 2017, compared to the previous year. As of October 7th, the NYPD has reportedly logged 116 bias incidents against Jews this year, including 12 assaults.

Police are investigating the vandalism as a hate crime.

Additional reporting by Mara Silvers.

UPDATE: A spokesperson for the NYPD tells Gothamist that there have been a total of 142 anti-Semitic hate crimes reported this year, up from 126 at this time in 2017. It appears that 26 of those incidents occurred in the last three weeks alone. Overall, there have been 290 hate crimes reported in 2018 so far—two more than were reported in the same period last year.