Brooklyn's Jewish neighbourhoods to get 100 new security cameras

New York City will install 100 new security cameras in strictly-Orthodox neighbourhoods to protect residents after a spate of antisemitic attacks, Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced.

The local Charedi community has been gripped with fear since a fatal attack on a kosher grocery store in nearby Jersey City on December 10, which was followed by the stabbings at a Chanukah celebration in Monsey on December 29.

The new cameras will be installed across the Chasidic neighbourhoods of Brooklyn – Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Borough Park, the Associated Press reports.

Recent antisemitic attacks in New York City reportedly range from the pulling off of sheitels to more violent assaults.