According to the New York Police Department (NYPD), Elizabeth Midlarsky, a professor in psychology and education at Columbia University's Teachers College in Manhattan, discovered the swastikas on the wall of her office on Wednesday afternoon.
"There were two swastikas and the word 'YID' on the wall," Detective Hubert Reyes of the NYPD told Al Jazeera.
"YID", from "Yiddish", is widely considered a slur against Jews.
The detective said no one had been arrested, adding that the NYPD's hate crime task force was investigating for "a possible biased crime".
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