By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer
Anti-Semitic graffiti was found last month on a basketball court in Princeton’s Grover Park, the town said Tuesday.
A resident alerted the municipal recreation department on March 15 finding the words “Gay Jews” written in substance “like spray paint” around a star of David with a Swastika in the middle, the town said. Municipal recreation director Ben Stentz said the graffiti was removed that day and that police were notified, a standard practice whenever graffiti is found.
Councilwoman Jo S. Butler, the council liaison to the recreation department, said Tuesday that it was an isolated incident that did not require the public to be notified at the time it happened.
“Certainly if it became more widespread, there might be a reason to be public,” she said.
Word of the incident at the park came a week after the revelation that Princeton High School students had played a “Jews vs. Nazis” beer pong game. Ms. Butler said the town has no reason to believe there is a connection between the two incidents.
