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Cops on Saturday released surveillance images of the vandal who they believe scrawled swastikas on six Brooklyn Heights buildings this week.

The man drew the anti-Semitic symbol on the steps and garage doors of multiple homes on Garden Place, between Joralemon and State streets, around 9:35 p.m. Tuesday, police said.

He’s captured in black-and-white images with shoulder length hair and wearing a hoodie.

On Wednesday, NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said that the incidents are being investigated as hate crimes, adding where were several cases of swastikas being drawn” in Brooklyn Heights.

“What we’ve seen in the last month is an increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes, particularly swastikas on buildings in parts of the city,” Shea said. “Anti-Semitic hate crimes make up about half of all of the hate crimes that we see in New York City.”

On Thursday night, James Polite, 26, allegedly scrawled “Kill all Jews” in the stairwell of Union Temple in Prospect Heights. He was busted the next day.

Both incidents came only days after a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, where the gunman yelled “All Jews must die!”

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