A wealthy Brooklyn neighborhood has erupted in fury after a local investment banker was filmed punching a woman at a parade.
Angry Park Slope locals blasted Jonathan Kaye, 52, over Saturday’s attack at Brooklyn’s Pride parade, footage of which has swept the internet.
One woman who lives nearby said: ‘I can’t believe this is in my neighborhood! When are they going to come and arrest him?’
She spoke as a poster shaming his actions was erected, complete with Kaye’s phone number and the full address of his luxurious $4 million brownstone home.
Another called Christine Doyle says Kaye should be driven out of the area in a no-holds barred attack on his character.
The wealthy neighborhood of a Brooklyn banker has been left reeling after he was seen punching a woman in a viral video
She said: ‘Everyone else here says hello to their neighbors,’ she told DailyMail.com.
‘They say nothing. They’re really insular.
‘We all know each other. But these guys have never been friendly.
‘They never care when you say something to them. They think they are above everything.
‘He leaves in his big black car at 6am every morning. Whatever he is doing, I’ve always said it’s the devil’s work.’
When asked what she would say to Kaye, Doyle added: ‘Please leave this neighborhood because men who punch women are not welcome here.
Jonathan Kaye, 52, was filmed on Saturday throwing a vicious overhand right at an unnamed woman in Brooklyn – where he also lives in a four bedroom townhouse in pricey Park Slope, valued at just over $4million
Doyle says Kaye and his wife previously angered neighbors with noisy construction work, with the pair owning multiple apartments on the street which they rent out.
She added: ‘You know, it’s that simple and you will be shunned and you already are. You don’t care if it’s going to get extraordinary in the future. And also I can’t wait to help this complaint and find the right attorney to sue you and take these two brownstones. Someone decent maybe we’ll move in.’
Kaye was recorded throwing a vicious overhand right at the unnamed woman during Park Slope’s Pride Parade on Saturday. The woman is seen being thrown to the floor by the force of the punch. It is unclear what sparked the confrontation.
Kaye works as a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, a leading investment bank with offices in Midtown Manhattan. The company has spurred an investigation into the incident, a spokesperson previously confirmed to DailyMail.com.
The NYPD has said they are aware of the viral video but no one has filed a police report regarding the incident. Kay is pictured
The NYPD has said they are aware of the viral video but no one has filed a police report regarding the incident.
Kaye, who lives his wife, owns multiple properties on the street, which he rents out to neighbors.
One said she was ‘shocked’ when she saw the footage this morning, adding that the father-of-three always seemed ‘normal’, although she normally spoke with his wife.
Another neighbor described scenes of chaos on the usually quiet street last night, as the victim’s friends ran up and down screaming that Kaye had assaulted a woman.
Kaye had barricaded himself in his home Monday morning, but an unknown man wearing a hoodie and sunglasses skulked into the property.
He said he did not live there, but did not say what he was doing.
Neighbors yelled at Kaye’s children as they entered the front door.
The banker lives in a $4million four-bedroom townhouse in pricey Park Slope.
They told them that their father was ‘disgusting’ and demanded they leave.
Kaye is a partner managing director and a head of business services at Moelis.
In his current role, he oversees 10 verticals within Moelis’s Business Services faction, managing ‘a dedicated team of bankers and… an extensive network of relationships with both strategic companies and private equity investors,’ according to his profile on Moelis’s website.
Video shows him throwing a vicious overhand right at the unnamed woman in Brooklyn – where he lives in a $4million four-bedroom townhouse in pricey Park Slope.
The woman is then thrown to the floor by the force of the punch, as one onlooker unsuccessfully rushes to her aid.
The banker, seen here turning in the wake of the attack, works as a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, a leading investment bank with offices in Midtown Manhattan
Others looking on are heard calling Kaye an ‘a**hole’ and telling him to ‘go f**k himself’ – earning his attention briefly before he abruptly walks away.
The footage, meanwhile, is short and shaky, but includes a moment where Kaye turns to the camera after knocking the woman to the floor.
Kaye walks off, holding a bag in one hand, with a wet stain on the back of his blazer.
In one clip containing a caption overlaid over the footage, a user wrote: ‘This guy punched me in the face today and broke my nose. [He also] busted up my friends[sic] arm… can anyone find him?’
A spokesperson for his employer confirmed to DailyMail.com that Kaye is the man seen in the viral video, and said that it has already spurred an investigation.
‘We have become aware that one of our employees was involved in a serious incident in Brooklyn on June 8,’ a Moelis representative said, as the 12-second snippet continues to gain traction online.
‘We take this matter very seriously and are conducting an investigation,’ she added.
The context of the punch-up is still unclear.
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