The Congressional Candidate Targeting NYU Students in Washington Square
He’s Campaigning from a Park Bench. He’s Also Talking About Killing Someone.
There is a man in New York City who wants to hurt someone. He says so, over and over, in blog posts and emails. He fantasizes about stalking, beating, even killing people. He talks about “heroic” subway violence and evokes Daniel Penny. Last month, he assaulted a man in Washington Square Park. Now, he is watching NYU students. Young women, mostly.
His name is Alexander Wolf Weinstein, though he goes by “Wolf Alexander” when campaigning. He arrived in New York shortly before the new year and has made Washington Square Park his daily stage for more than six months. He claims he is running as an independent for Congress in NY-10 from a bench in the park. He has no staff, no donations, no platform beyond vague anarchism and violent revenge fantasies. He does have a criminal record that includes phone harassment, stalking, domestic assault, destruction of property and retaliation against a public official.
The campaign, by his own admission, is a pretext he uses to approach young women without suspicion.
“I am moving to The University of Virginia on Halloween,” he wrote in 2024, “so I can have sex with as many hot young college girls as possible.”
He has recycled the tactic in New York. In blog posts and emails, he has referred to the campaign pitch as “the best pickup line ever invented.” On his website, he misused the NYU logo to advertise phony “master classes,” including one labeled “Serious Self Defense for Girls.” He inserted himself into NYU campus life, then harassed students and faculty who rejected him. He sent multi-page screeds to the Feminist Society and the Washington Square News after being blocked on Instagram.
Each day, Weinstein parks himself on a bench near NYU’s campus, using the guise of a political candidate to hand out fliers and talk to women. He records his thoughts online. They are obsessive, graphic, and often violent.
From Fantasies to Force
On June 16, 2025, Weinstein took what he called a “fighter patrol” through Washington Square Park. He described the path as “a deliberate loop past benches and trees.” His “eyes open for trouble.” That day, he found what he was looking for
A homeless man approached a group asking for money. Weinstein recognized him from the night before and followed him across the park, describing the corner he entered as “where all the dregs of society are.” Then, unprovoked, he attacked:
“He asked one of them for money, and as he did I slammed into him from behind. A football block. Boom.”
The man hit the ground. Three bystanders stepped forward to protect him. He then brandished an improvised weapon, a short metal pipe threaded onto a bandana, which he swung confidently "like a very heavy lanyard.” What he calls his “lock in a sock.” He warned he would return on what he calls his “fighter patrol route.”
Weinstein routinely compares himself to a combat pilot flying in hostile territory. Washington Square Park is his chosen airspace. He walks lap after lap, looking for people he deems threats to the women he claims to protect. Each circuit is a search for the next confrontation he can script as heroism and post online.
A Worldview Rooted in Hate
Weinstein’s blog entries are filled with slurs, dehumanizing language, and open threats. He calls unhoused people “mutants.” He speculates about killing a transgender woman after realizing she is trans. In his writing, “REDACT” seems to a euphemism for murder. He uses it without irony.
“A very effeminate trans girl is going to get me all excited until I look in his eyes… At that point I am going to do my best not to REDACT him.”
He also describes how men who heckled a female performer should be “dropped into the river from a crane.” Another time, he writes about a “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” as if it were a justifiable response to disrespect
This rhetoric is part of a clear pattern. Weinstein writes about violence, then takes steps toward it. His confessed assault in the park was targeted. He stalked his victim and attacked him. Then he published a proud account of what he had done.
Perhaps most disturbing is his reference to the subway killing of Jordan Neely. Weinstein knows the name. He knows the press it brought. He has studied the moment.
“I see horrible videos all the time. If one of those situation[s] occurs I am ready. But I try to prevent heroic moments before they happen. Which doesn't get me as much press as Daniel Pennying someone but I don't really wanna do that.”
He may claim he does not “want” to do it, but he is clearly preparing for the chance. And the notoriety.
A Known Threat, in Plain Sight
Weinstein has a criminal history. In 2019, he was convicted in West Virginia for domestic assault and violating a protective order. That case involved a female partner. He has also been charged in the past with stalking
In the end, the most damning indictment of Alexander Weinstein comes from his own keyboard. He has confessed to his violent crimes and broadcast the hateful ideology that fuels him. The evidence shows a man whose violent words about the unhoused turned into action. He is now publishing fantasies of public murder. The only remaining question is whether his words will be taken seriously before those fantasies also become someone else's reality.
If You Feel Unsafe or Need to Report Harassment:
For NYU students and faculty:
Wellness Exchange (24/7): Call (212) 443-9999 or text “WELL” to 65173
Bias Response Line: bit.ly/NYUbias
In NYC:
NYC Well (Mental Health + Crisis): Call or text 988
Safe Horizon (Stalking + Violence Help): 866-689-HELP (4357)
To report threatening behavior to the NYPD:
Threat Assessment & Protection Unit
Email: TAPU@nypd.org
Phone: 646-610-5430