Barreto then requested the hotel “enter into a lease agreement with him for the room pursuant to New York’s rent stabilization law,” the D.A. said. Barreto’s boyfriend had reportedly ...

A New York City resident lived in the New Yorker Hotel rent-free for five years. then he allegedly claimed to own the building, prosecutors said. Mickey Barreto, 48, allegedly filed paperwork ...

Finally, we convinced him to go seek treatment,’” Barreto told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The New Yorker closed as a hotel in 1972 but part of the building reopened as a hotel in 1994.

The story of how a guy named Mickey Barreto came to own, at least on paper, the New Yorker hotel is a weird one. It started in June 2018, when Barreto first booked a night at the Art Deco landmark ...

Now it might cost him his freedom. Mickey Barreto first checked into the New Yorker Hotel in 2018.Credit...John Taggart for The New York Times Supported by By Matthew Haag Matthew Haag interviewed ...

But prosecutors this week said Mickey Barreto went too far when he filed paperwork claiming ownership of the entire New Yorker Hotel building — and tried to charge another tenant rent.

For five years, a New York City man managed to live rent-free in a landmark Manhattan hotel by exploiting an obscure local housing law. But prosecutors this week said Mickey Barreto went too far ...