Jewish & World News

Runnin' Scared wrote about a series of photos chronicling a group of neo-Nazis in Greenpoint. As one would expect, the photos, which Gawker broke, have gone viral, and were featured in the Daily Mail, prompting the Daily News to ask: Are there Nazis in Brooklyn? Runnin' Scared has recently learned that these polemic pics are at least two years old.

A local photographer who published pictures of some young, Polish, neo-Nazis living in Brooklyn abruptly pulled the photos from his website Wednesday. "I want to keep a low profile," Adam Krause told PIX 11, when we contacted him, shortly after the pictures were featured in a story in London's "Daily Mail". The series of photos show young white guys, some of them sitting in front of flags with swastikas. Some have their faces covered with bandanas, while one of them poses at the Greenpoint piers, wearing a warm-up jacket with Polska printed on it, across the river from the Empire State Building in Manhattan.

It is at once a deeply-rooted Polish neighbourhood with industrial roots where immigrants still speak in their native tongue on the streets. At the same time, Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighbourhood is a fast-gentrifying area of New York full of young families and working professionals who wish to live close to Manhattan. But the northernmost neighbourhood in Brooklyn is also home to a group of Polish neo-Nazis, who walk the streets, just like anybody else, and are fiercely proud of their beliefs.