Shuvro Biswas Body found in Hudson River
The man whose body was found floating in the Hudson River Monday has been identified as a mathematician working with cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence, according to police sources and his “devastated” family.
Sources identified the remains found off West 45th Street
and 12th Avenue in Manhattan as Shuvro Biswas, 31, adding that there were no
immediately apparent signs of foul play.
Biswas’ brother told The Post that he and his family were
gutted by the news, noting that they’d tried in vain to get Biswas help as he
battled apparent mental illness.
“We’re all extremely devastated,” said Biprojit Biswas, 34,
when reached by phone. “There’s no words.
“He’s a really good guy. He’s brilliant,” he continued. “He
went to Bronx High School of Science. He went on to study applied mathematics.
We’re still not sure where things went wrong.”
Biswas said his sibling was self-employed and most recently
working on a cryptocurrency security program, and online profiles show that the
younger Biswas also dabbled in artificial intelligence.
He said the family started to see changes in Biswas’
demeanor over the past year, but that he largely kept his struggles to himself.
“He was always a normal, healthy person, or so he led us to
believe,” the elder Biswas said. “The changes started coming only in the past year.
He would say things that didn’t make much sense from time to time. He had a
girlfriend and they had a bad breakup, but I don’t want to say that was the
cause of everything. He didn’t really like to share much. He’s a private
person.”
Biswas said his family urged his younger brother to talk to
someone.
“We tried to convince him to the best of our abilities to
seek professional help, but he always denied that he needed psychiatric help,”
said Biswas. “He was going to a neurologist but he wouldn’t say for what.”
In February, the management of the younger Biswas’ West 37th
Street apartment building took him to Manhattan Supreme Court, seeking to evict
him over a slew of alleged bizarre acts inside the building, including setting
fires, openly brandishing a knife and smearing blood inside the elevator, court
filings show.
“Defendant is a ticking time bomb who, just months into the
Lease, has engaged in numerous incidents of escalating, offensive nuisance-type
conduct that threatens the lives, health, safety and well-being of Building
staff, Building residents and Building property,” lawyers for the building
wrote in one filing.
The filing claimed that Biswas had intentionally set a
mattress on fire in his unit — while leaving an open propane tank in the
apartment.
He also allegedly brandished a knife, smeared blood in the
building elevator, illegally installed surveillance cameras and an alarm
system, scattered bullets throughout the building and filed multiple false
reports of intruders with the police — one of which saw him greet responding
officers by “brandishing [a] sword,” according to the filing.
A body found floating in Hudson River at near the Intrepid.
The body identified as Shuvro Biswas by the NYPD.
Biswas’ brother said Biswas had explained the arson
allegation as a cooking fire.
“There was a fire in his apartment. He said it was a cooking
accident,” he told The Post. “The fire department came in and put it out. The
department had some questions for him, but they never came back with the
questions.”
The city Medical Examiner’s Office will determine a cause of
death.
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