“Hoyt, who lives on Ninth Avenue at 49th Street....”
To me it looks like the author published the address and photo hoping that vigilantes would do what the courts refuse to do.
Not being a New Yorker, I don't know if that intersection has several huge apartment towers all 'round or not. If so, there might be thousands of people who could be identified as living at that intersection.
That being said, if not many people live there and he's found floating in a nearby river or harbor next week, I won't shed any tears.