NEW YORK – A Cold Spring woman is facing charges of aggravated harassment as a hate crime in connection with last summer’s vandalism at the New York Times building in midtown Manhattan.
Cold Spring resident Alexa Wilkinson, 38, along with Anna Owens, 24, and 30-year-old Sarah Schaff, were accused of being part of a group that poured red paint on the building at 4 a.m. on July 30 which cost over $107,000 to repair.
Vandals wrote on windows: “NYT Lies; Gaza Dies” while leaving leaflets outside the building alleging that the paper was “starving Gaza.”…