Overview

• Anthony Smith, 37, was arrested Wednesday and charged with attempted rape and strangulation in the early-morning Hell’s Kitchen assault.
• Police identified Smith through surveillance footage showing a man in a black T-shirt, black shorts and white sneakers carrying a cell phone near 47th Street and Eighth Avenue.
• The 21-year-old victim was hospitalized at Metropolitan Hospital Center in stable condition with neck pain after regaining consciousness.
• Smith’s arraignment was scheduled for Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.
• NYPD officials noted a 22 percent increase in reported rapes this year, a trend partly attributed to last September’s broadened legal definition of sexual assault.