Record-breaking Mickey Barreto took advantage of the restrictive tenant law. Now Hotellihuone may change to a cell due to fraud charges.
A 48-year-old has been followed in the United States Mickey Barreton stages like reality TV.
Barreto stayed at the iconic The New Yorker hotel in 2019 and refused to leave until February of this year. The story of the nightmare hotel guest has been covered in several media.
Barreto managed to stay in Manhattan almost for free based on a section of the old tenancy law. The American man appealed to the court and claimed that he was in fact the rightful owner of the building.
He used as a justification an ambiguous legal section, on the basis of which it is possible to stay in a single room for half a year in a property built before 1969. Barreto paid one night’s price for his room and considered himself a tenant instead of a hotel guest.
The hotel asked the guest to leave after staying one night. He applied for a rent-entitlement decision and got it from the state court because the building’s owners and the lawyers representing them did not show up.
The judge ordered the hotel to give Barreto a room key. The man’s accommodation took longer because, according to Barreto’s interpretation, the owners of the property did not want to discuss alternatives.
Housing costs for a prime location are a couple of hundred euros
Barreto’s and her male friend’s living expenses were around 200 dollars, or just under 200 euros. He repeatedly asked for a new six-month contract, and refused to leave the 18-square-meter room, despite negative answers.
The years-long stay ended in a police escort in February when Michel Barreto falsely claimed to be the owner of the property and tried to collect rent from another resident of the property. District Attorney Alvin Bradd says Barreto is guilty of repeated fraud.
The New Yorker is a Manhattan landmark
The New Yorker Hotel is not the most glamorous in Manhattan, but it is one of the largest in the area. The hotel has a thousand rooms. The hotel’s history is full of famous and also long-term guests. Serbian-American engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla lived in the hotel for a decade. Tesla electric cars has been named According to him. Also a boxer Muhammad Ali belonged to the clientele.
The hotel, built in the 1930s, was closed in 1972. For years, it was used by the parish, among other things, until it was reopened in 1994.
Sources of the story include AP, The New York Times, CBS and Dagens Nyheter.
Corrected March 31 at 12:55pm that Tesla electric cars are named after the inventor Nikola Tesla, Nikola Tesla did not invent them.