The hotel guest who wouldn’t leave

A man's five-year stay in New York City cost him only $200.57.
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April 14, 2024

In 2018, a man checked into a double-bed room in the New Yorker Hotel. For a one-night stay, he paid $200.57. But he did not check out the next morning.

Doormen in uniform stand in the street in front of a marquee reading the New Yorker Hotel.

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He made the hotel his home for five years — without paying another cent.

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