Teen daredevil won’t hang it up
A daredevil New Jersey teenager — who has been busted for climbing 1 World Trade Center and three other high-rises — landed back in jail this week for scaling yet another Manhattan tower.
Justin Casquejo, 19, of Weehawken, was caught dangling from the roof of a 52-story apartment building in Murray Hill on Thursday, police said.
The adrenaline junkie pulled the dangerous acrobatics at the Paramount Tower on East 39th Street near Second Avenue at about 9 p.m., cops said.
Casquejo — who posts Instagram photos of himself hanging from city buildings — was cuffed before he could post his latest shot, police said.
But a photo posted on his Instagram earlier in the day showed the teen balancing on the ledge of a Times Square skyscraper.
“You’re capable of so much more than you believe,” the caption read.
Another photo posted the same day shows him scaling a building high above the East River.
Casquejo has been arrested for climbing buildings four times in about three years, cops said.
In March 2014, he was busted after he crawled through a hole in a fence at Ground Zero, slipped past a sleeping guard and climbed up scaffolding on 1 WTC.
He served 30 days of community service for the security breach.
Soon after, in September 2014, he was arrested again for trying to climb to the top of a historic, 175-foot brick water tower in Weehawken, NJ.
This past December, he was charged with misdemeanor BASE jumping and trespassing after climbing 70 Pine St., a 67- story luxury apartment building in the Financial District in February 2016.
Less than a week later, he set up a Kickstarter page asking for help paying his legal fees.
On Thursday, Casquejo was charged with reckless endangerment and trespassing.
“We look forward to addressing the charges in court after the district attorney has drafted the criminal complaint and we have reviewed the allegations,” said Casquejo’s lawyer, Jeremy Saland.