WEEHAWKEN -- A local teen who gained public notoriety -- and the scorn of first-responders -- for scaling the then-unfinished World Trade Center two years ago surrendered to authorities after similar recent climbs at New York City buildings.

Justin Casquejo, 18, recorded his exploits and posted them on social media, video and pictures showing the youth dangling by one arm from a tower hundreds of feet above Central Park, atop a midtown skyscraper that appears to be under construction and scaling other tall buildings.

Another man also appears in some of the images.

WABC 7 reports that Casquejo turned himself in Friday and will face felony charges of reckless endangerment and trespassing.

"This is not an individual that I have seen in any capacity, that is a menace, is malicious, that is intentionally going out and perpetrating anything criminal," his attorney Jeremy Soland told Channel 7. "There is nothing that I have seen since I've gotten to know him that says that he's a cavalier, flippant person. He has nothing but the complete amount of respect anyone can have for first responders and law enforcement."

After he was arrested in March 2014 following his World Trade Center climb, Casquejo was ordered to write a 1,200 word essay. Two weeks after climbing the downtown Manhattan landmark, Casquejo was arrested again for climbing a Weehawken water tower.

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