The NYPD is increasing its presence at religious sites and cultural institutions with high visibility patrols, heavy weapons teams and counterterrorism officers,” officials said.

NYPD security is heightened at Jewish and Israeli sites around the city after two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., were gunned down. Sarah Milgrim, 26, and Yaron Lischinsky, 30, were about to get engaged,

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed in a post on X that the victims of the Washington, D.C., shootings, which took place at about 9 p.m. Wednesday less than a mile from the White House, were members of the "Israeli Embassy Staff."