A 48-year-old alleged fraudster has been charged with repeatedly filing false property records claiming ownership of the New Yorker Hotel, in which he lived rent-free for five years using a ...

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 ...

A man charged with fraud for claiming to own a storied Manhattan hotel where he had been living rent-free for years has been found unfit to stand trial, prosecutors said Wednesday. Doctors ...

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 ...

They say he forged a deed to the New Yorker Hotel purporting to transfer ownership of the entire building to him. He then tried to charge one of the hotel’s tenants rent and demanded the hotel ...