Interview · moment 14 of 15
Squatters, Grifter Friends, and a Murder-Suicide at the Club
from Antiseptic New York · #9
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
3 minGuest
Ralph discusses modern-day grifter friends squatting in a divorced man's apartment, old NYC squatter's rights law, the origin of the name Avenue C, and a dark story of a stripper murdered by her bouncer boyfriend whose face stayed on club billboards after her death.
- 41:03Tim's nostalgia for con men and grifters he knew since childhood, and his friends who are still running scams today.
- 41:17Friend Joe sent photos of Ryan and his girlfriend sleeping on couches after they squatted in a divorcing man's apartment they'd never met.
- 41:46Tim knew a squatter who endured no heat, water, or electricity for months and eventually got a free apartment when the building was redone.
- 42:32Avenue C in the Lower East Side was named by Spanish residents who couldn't pronounce 'Low East Side' in English.
- 42:59A murder-suicide at the strip club where Tim worked: the manager's girlfriend switched to dating a bouncer, they got high, and he killed her then himself.
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