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Mickey Barreto’s five-year stay cost him only $200.57. Now it might cost him his freedom.

On a June afternoon in 2018, a man named Mickey Barreto checked into the New Yorker Hotel. He was assigned Room 2565, a double-bed accommodation with

New York City's worst landlord, Daniel Ohebshalom, was punched on Friday during an inmate brawl at Rikers. Ohebshalom was sentenced for failing to fix more than 700 housing violations.

Daniel Ohebshalom is considered one of the worst landlords in New York City, according to Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.

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NYC's 'Worst Landlord' Faces Arrest Warrant For Not Making Fixes - New York City, NY - A judge ordered Daniel Ohebshalom held in jail for 60 days, or until he fixes problems with lead paint, rodents and more in two buildings.

NEW YORK — A New York City judge took the rare step of issuing an arrest warrant for one of the city’s most infamous landlords for allegedly failing to correct hundreds of hazardous building violations at a pair of Washington Heights properties. Daniel Ohebshalom, also known as Dan Shalom, figured at the top of the Public Advocate’s “Worst Landlords” watchlist for the second consecutive year ...

The city's "worst landlord" is now a wanted man.