In the News: Assault Suspect

••• The Wall Street Journal looks at the exercise regimen of Jodi Richard, who owns Atera: “The restaurateur and mother of two competes in eight to 10 trail races, triathlons and bike races a year. She works out five to six days a week. The only time she scaled back her routine was when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.”

••• Curbed recaps 10 buildings under construction in FiDi.

••• “The Rector Street pedestrian bridge is slated for a rehabilitation project that will replace the staircase at its western end, as well as the walking surface on its span. While the Battery Park City Authority, which maintains the bridge on behalf of its owner, the State Department of Transportation, prepares to replace the staircase on the west side of the bridge, it has closed the steps.” —Broadsheet

••• A “30-year-old’s leg was pinned by a J train within the Broad Street Station, near Wall Street.” —DNAinfo

suspect••• Here’s a photo of the man the police are looking for in regard to the other day’s sexual assault. —DNAinfo

••• “DDG Partners is wasting no time getting in on the Hudson Square Rezoning action. The developer has approached the owners of three multi-family townhouses at 60-64 Watts Street to see if they will sell. Together, the properties have a 5,100-square-foot lot and 41,000-square-feet of unused air rights.” —Curbed, summarizing the Real Deal

••• “Two men, including a former librarian at Stuyvesant High School, were arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents on charges that they plotted to kidnap and torture women, according to a criminal complaint released on Monday. […] The librarian was Robert C. Asch, 61, who had been arrested in 2009 after being accused of inappropriately touching four male students at Stuyvesant. The charges were later dropped. […] As recently as Monday morning, Mr. Asch met with an undercover F.B.I. agent to conduct surveillance of a woman—in reality a second undercover F.B.I. agent—whom he had discussed kidnapping and murdering, according to the criminal complaint. He brought two bags with him to the meeting point, near Battery Park. Inside were a Taser gun, meat hammer, skewers, zip ties, cleaning supplies and a dental retractor.” —New York Times

 

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