A Manhattan hedge-fund manager flung into the wall of an Upper East Side Equinox club during spin class got a surprise phone call in the hospital from the gym – canceling his membership.
“He was in disbelief,” said Stuart Sugarman’s lawyer, Samuel Davis.
Sugarman had been in Lenox Hill Hospital preparing for neck surgery when he received the “bizarre” cellphone message – two days after the Aug. 15 incident, Davis said.
On that day, Sugarman said, he was vigorously pedaling – whooping it up with such chants as “You go, girl!” – when a fellow cyclist shoved him and his bike hard enough to leave a hole in the sheetrock.
Manhattan broker Christopher Carter, 44, is charged with misdemeanor assault. Davis said he’d ask the DA to up that to a felony.
“He could have just said, ‘Keep it down a bit,’ ” Sugarman said.
Davis called the membership termination “one error in judgment after another in rapid succession” and said he planned to sue the club and Carter.
Carter’s lawyer, Dan Ollen, said Sugarman was “exaggerating his injuries.”
A spokesperson for Equinox could not be reached.