Kingston Mayor Steve Noble says while he was at an event at the Ulster Performing Arts Center Saturday evening, there was vandalism going on just down the road. 

"Great community event to bring together many individuals across our community, to remind them to make sure to get out and vote. And later that evening unfortunately, someone came into our community and pushed hate into our Midtown neighborhood," Noble said.

Liberty Street was one of the hardest hit areas, where you can see swastikas graffitied onto homes. 

"Swastikas, the number 666, stars, and I believe there's an SMD or SMH on a vehicle also," said Kington Police Department Detective Lt. Thierry Croizer.

The Kingston Police Department says there are about 18 places they know were hit. They are trying to figure out how many people may have been involved, if anyone was targeted, and whether the graffiti would constitute a hate crime.

"It's not considered automatically a hate crime, we have to detirmine what their intent was, was there intent to hurt someone specific person, group, we don't know at this point, we don't know who's responsible for this," said Croizer.

The mayor says the vandalism impacts everyone.

"It's really hurtful, whenever people use graffiti, or any time of imagery to inflict pain on others, it's not what our community is all about and hate has no place here in Kingston," said Noble.

Police say vandalism happens, but it's rare to see this kind of graffiti in the city. Kingston PD is asking for the public's help in this case. You can call, Facebook message them, or submit an anonymous tip.