A man who was arrested in connection with three violent sexual assaults along Manhattan’s waterfront in 2022 has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, prosecutors said Monday.
Carl Phanor, 29, pleaded guilty in April to charges including predatory sexual assault, second-degree attempted murder and first-degree rape, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said.
Phanor was also sentenced to 10 years of post-release supervision, the DA’s office said.
“Carl Phanor has been held accountable for a pattern of vile sexual assaults,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement. “Phanor’s violent attacks did much more than cause physical harm, as many of the survivors continue to suffer deep emotional and psychological scars, and I stand with them as they continue to heal and address their trauma.”
Prosecutors say Phanor biked up to a 39-year-old woman as she was jogging along the Hudson River Greenway, near Pier 46 in Greenwich Village, around 6 a.m. on March 27, 2022, pushed her to the ground, choked her and sexually assaulted her before taking her cell phone.
Months later, around 5 a.m. on Oct. 6, 2022, Phanor approached a 48-year-old woman as she was walking near East 37th Street and the FDR Drive in Midtown, put her in a chokehold and ripped her jeans open before stealing her credit card and cell phone, according to prosecutors.
Phanor also raped and robbed a 43-year-old woman as she was jogging along the Hudson River Greenway, near Pier 45 in Greenwich Village, around 5:45 a.m. on Nov. 3, 2022, leaving her with “significant injuries,” including a cervical spinal fracture in her neck, rib fractures and a punctured lung, prosecutors said.
He was arrested hours after the third attack, when he tried to use the woman’s credit card to buy a bus ticket at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, the DA’s office said.