The vandal who allegedly scrawled antisemitic graffiti on a scrolling message board outside an Upper East Side synagogue last week has been arrested and charged with a hate crime, police said.
Lenny De La Rosa, 21, was busted Wednesday in connection to the 7 p.m. Saturday vandalism targeting Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun Synagogue on East 85th Street, near Lexington Avenue, cops said.
He was charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime and making graffiti, according to the NYPD.
Cops say De La Rosa took out a marker and graffitied a display screen attached to the house of worship.
He ran off on East 85th Street after the hateful act.
“It was pretty easy to wipe off – they got it clean in a few minutes,” a neighbor named Scott told The Post on Sunday.
“There’s three cameras right there!” Scott, 51, continued. “Guy was probably wacked out on drugs. We get a lot of that here.”
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force investigated the crime.
