claimed his ex-girlfriend attacked him. He was taken by the police to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and released after two hours. Various parsings of these events had him suffering from what could be described as delusions of grandeur and paranoia. He went back to live with his mother in Queens, which earned him the nickname "George Costanza" among his associates. In 2004, he wrote the off-off-Broadway play Andy & Edie about the relationship between Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick. Although it played to full houses at the relatively small Shetler Studio Theater, the piece wasn't well received by some critics. Braunstein stopped talking to his father after he made a negative comment about the play. Braunstein also came up with a hit list of "gay men" whom he wanted to "punish". Halloween attack On October 31, 2005, a man wearing a New York City Fire Department uniform set off two smoke bombs in the lobby of a West 24th street building in Chelsea, Manhattan where his victim lived. He then knocked on the door of the victim's apartment and told her he was there to check for smoke damage. As soon as the victim let him in, the man shoved a chloroform-laced rag into her face. For the next 13 hours, she went in and out of consciousness while the attacker groped her. The victim told the police that the attacker apparently knew her, although she was not able to identify him. According to her, he videotaped the attack and left with a pair of her shoes. The police released a sketch of the suspect made with the help of a witness which was identified as Braunstein by his father the next day. Several of his former coworkers also called the police after he allegedly made threatening phone calls to them following the attack. Several days later, detectives uncovered more evidence on Braunstein's personal computer, including a detailed plan that described the attack that occurred. Police have also discovered that Braunstein purchased a voice-altering device on eBay five days before the attack. Media reaction The crime received a great amount of media attention for a number of reasons - one is that Braunstein was a well-educated writer and journalist from an upper-middle-class family. Braunstein also was able to avoid arrest for several weeks while apparently still residing in New York, where his photo graced the front pages of