Nightmare ‘squatter from hell’ may have legal right to late New Yorker’s lifelong rent-controlled apt

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An accused squatter from hell could actually have a claim to the rent-controlled pad in a swanky West Village building where he’s allegedly been terrorizing neighbors for months, legal experts said. Melvin DeJesus, 66, moved into the 5th-floor unit at 400 Bleecker St. roughly two decades ago when a lifelong New Yorker with a “heart...

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An accused squatter from hell could actually have a claim to the rent-controlled pad in a swanky West Village building where he’s allegedly been terrorizing neighbors for months, legal experts said. Melvin DeJesus, 66, moved into the 5th-floor unit at 400 Bleecker St. roughly two decades ago when a lifelong New Yorker with a “heart...