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

The shooting claimed the lives of a man and women who worked at the Israeli Embassy and were about to be engaged, according to officials.

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,