Squatter Sublets NYC Apartment While Owing ‘Betrayed’ Landlord $72K in Rent
Ny Post | 04/13/2024 | Matthew SedaccaA crafty squatter bilked his landlord of at least $72,000 in rent for his Lower East Side apartment — then made tens of thousands in profit by subletting the unit, the owner charges.
For three years, computer programmer Thor Boucher hasn’t paid a cent of his bargain-rate $2,000-a-month, two-bedroom, one-bathroom Essex Street pad, claiming he didn’t have to because the building was noisy and shook, according to landlord Ed Yau and Manhattan Civil Court documents.
The alleged freeloader had no qualms renting the space out, though, charging as much as $1,950 per room monthly since November 2021 on platforms including Airbnb and Craigslist.
Archive of entries posted on 19th April 2024
What’s Walrus Building?
A whole lot of anxiety. Next Thursday is closing. Fingers crossed all the T’s are dotted and the I’s are all crossed.
Previous Build
German Staff Car Type 230
The Mercedes-Benz W 153 was a luxury six cylinder passenger car built in parallel with the W 143 from 1938, and first presented in public at the Berlin Motor Show early in 1939. It was one of several Mercedes-Benz models known, in its own time, as the Mercedes-Benz 230 (or sometimes, in this case, as the Mercedes-Benz Typ(e) 230).
The car had the same 3,050 mm (120 in) wheelbase as the longer wheelbase versions of the W143 from 1937, but with a completely new and much more modern body as well as a completely new chassis. In place of the earlier car’s pressed steel subframe the W 153 had an x-shaped oval tube subframe. The car had been developed by Hans Gustav Röhr who headed up the company’s Passenger Car Development Department for two years prior to his death in August 1937.
