A professional-Palestine protester splattered purple paint throughout the Greenwich Village house of the New York Occasions govt editor early Friday, police mentioned.
The purple paint was discovered on the entrance steps, partitions, sidewalk and lamps outdoors the doorway to the swanky residence constructing on Fifth Ave. close to E. eleventh St. at about 3 a.m. on Friday.
New York Occasions govt editor Joseph Kahn lives within the constructing.
Joseph Kahn, Government Editor of the New York Occasions, speaks throughout a panel dialogue on the significance of free and protected international reporting throughout WSJ’s Way forward for The whole lot Competition, Wednesday, Could 3, 2023, in New York. (AP Photograph/Mary Altaffer)
In addition to smearing purple paint on the partitions and steps, the vandal wrote “Joe Kahn Lies, Gaza Dies” in black marker on the sidewalk in entrance of the entrance door.
Constructing residents known as police after the vandalism was found a couple of hours later.
No arrests have been made.
Graffiti is pictured on a Fifth Ave. residence constructing in Greenwich Village, Manhattan on Friday, August 29, 2025.(Barry Williams/ New York Each day Information)
Police sources mentioned there have been a handful of comparable protests towards Kahn’s house over the New York Occasions’ protection of the warfare in Gaza. Kahn was named govt editor of the paper in 2022.
A Gaza protester splattered purple paint throughout the Greenwich Village house of New York Occasions Government Editor Joseph Kahn on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. (Obtained by Each day Information)
Initially Revealed: August 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM EDT
