CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- The attack carried out during a pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder , Colorado that left 12 people injured, has sparked new fears in New York.

For Jewish New Yorkers, the risk is real and it's growing. Perhaps nowhere more so than in the ultra-Orthodox community in Brooklyn.

Patrols in Crown Heights are being stepped-up Monday night, as the community celebrates the festive, two-day holiday of Shavuot.

Worshippers declined on-camera interviews because of the holiday, but several told Eyewitness News privately that they are worried and have been worried for months.

The firebombing in Boulder, Colorado was the kind of attack that is largely unpredictable and very difficult to prevent. It's not unlike the execution-style murders of two young Israeli emb

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