Squatter sublets NYC apartment while owing landlord $72K in rent
A cunning squatter extorted the landlord of at least $72,000 in rent for a Lower East Side apartment, then sublet it for tens of thousands of dollars in profits, the owner alleges. Computer programmer Thor Boucher hasn’t paid a dime for three years on his discounted $2,000 a month apartment on Essex Street, a two-bedroom, […]
Suspected squatter in $1M NYC home is sublets space in the house, resident says
A suspected squatter who allegedly occupied a $1 million home in Queens is now subletting space in the house, one of the squatters told The Post on Wednesday. Kevin Barasty said he was tricked into paying $1,500 a month to live in the basement of his Flushing home in a deal with “Jay,” whom he […]