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NYC couch potato has squatted in 90-year-old rabbi's home for years - New York Post
Feb 04, 2023 1 min, 4 secs
A 90-year-old rabbi’s life has been turned upside down by a brazen squatter who moved into his living room two years ago — and shows no signs of making her exodus any time soon.

Accused agi-tater Roselee Moskowitz, 67, allegedly took advantage of the kindness of Rabbi Meyer Leifer and his family, who gave her a place to stay in his two-bedroom West 28th Street apartment when she had nowhere to go at the dawn of the pandemic, according to his daughter Daniella and court records.

With the pandemic raging, the family had moved Meyer Leifer out of town with relatives for a few months, and let Moskowitz camp out in his two-bedroom co-op in his absence, the rabbi’s daughter explained.

The rabbi fell in his bedroom in October 2021 and was sprawled alone on the floor for hours with a head injury while Moskowitz sat in the apartment, the family contends.

In-home surveillance, meant to check on the elderly man’s wellbeing, captures images of the alleged squatter.Rabbi Leifer, who spent 42 years as head of the Congregation Emunath Israel, or The Chelsea Shul, sued in May to evict Moskowitz.

Cuomo’s eviction moratorium and financial hardship declarations — which paused a case but didn’t require tenants to submit proof of their monetary woes.

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