Orthodox Jew beaten in racial attack

Melissa Grace:

An orthodox Jewish man was beaten by two black men in Crown Heights as they spewed hate-filled words at him, police said yesterday.

The 50-year-old victim was walking home on Schenectady Ave. between Crown and Carroll Sts. at 10:45 p.m. Monday when the men sneaked up behind him, hit him and knocked off his glasses, cops said.

They punched him repeatedly in the face and demanded to know what he was doing in his own neighborhood, the victim and cops said.

"What are you doing over here, you f-----g Jew!" he said the men screamed at him.

The attackers took off moments later, after residents responded to the bloodied victim's cries for help.

The man asked that his name not be printed for fear that the suspects, who were thought to be in their teens or early 20s, would seek him out.

Man punched in face in apparent Crown Heights bias attack