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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Yorkers will proudly tell you they’re New Yorkers — for good reason—and this hotel is no different: The 42-story landmarked building wears its large red “New Yorker” sign like a badge of honor at ...

Doctors say a man who had lived inside the iconic New Yorker Hotel for free for more than half a decade is unfit to stand trial. Mickey Barreto lived in the New Yorker Hotel for years without ...

Alleged fraudster Mickey Barreto has been indicted over accusations of a bizarre scheme to claim he owned the famed New Yorker Hotel, near Penn Station, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office ...

A man claiming to be the owner of the New Yorker Hotel is instead the owner of an indictment, courtesy of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Bragg’s office announced the indictment on ...

He had been arraigned in a Manhattan court in what prosecutors said was a blatant, persistent scheme to take ownership of the once-grand New Yorker Hotel in Midtown. Mr. Barreto’s bizarre ...

Paul Barreto’s father, Mickey, lived at the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan for five years, paying only $200.57. Paul was desperate to escape. Paul Barreto will graduate in June from LaGuardia ...

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 ...