New York ( CNN ) -- Bail was set Wednesday at $ 500,000 for a New York film student accused of slashing a cab driver 's throat after asking the driver if he was Muslim . Michael Enright pleaded not guilty last month in the August attack , and the judge said then he would wait to set bail for Enright until he was medically cleared from Bellvue Hospital Center 's psychiatric ward , where he was ordered for mental evaluation in early September . The Manhattan district attorney 's office said if bail is made , Enright must wear a monitoring bracelet and surrender his passport as well as adhere to an 8 p.m. curfew . Enright is facing charges of second-degree attempted murder as a hate crime , second-degree assault as a hate crime , second-degree aggravated harassment as a hate crime , and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon in the August 24 incident , according to New York police . Cab driver Ahmed Sharif survived the attack . The Taxi Workers Alliance said Sharif , 43 , a practicing Muslim originally from Bangladesh , was slashed across the neck , face , shoulder and hand . Bleeding profusely , Sharif escaped and flagged down a police officer , who arrested Enright . Authorities said Enright was intoxicated at the time of the incident ; they found an empty bottle of scotch in a backpack he had with him . The attack occurred amid public debate over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque to be called Park51 two blocks from the site of the September 11 , 2001 , terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center . Enright , 21 , was a film student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan . People who know him described him after his arrest as someone who worked to build bridges across religious and ethnic boundaries . They were `` shocked and dumbfounded , '' said Robert Chase , executive director of Intersections International . Enright volunteered with the nonprofit group , which partially funded a trip he took in the spring to Afghanistan . As part of his thesis , Enright shot a film on American soldiers serving there , Chase said . CNN 's Marina Landis contributed to this report .
Defendant Michael Enright 's bail is set at $ 500,000 . If he is freed on bail , he must wear a monitoring bracelet and surrender his passport . Enright is accused of stabbing a cab driver after asking the driver if he was Muslim .