The New Yorker Hotel Has Construction, Moonies, Students and More
A Fordham University senior is suing the New Yorker Hotel after the room she was placed in as substitute dorm room she claims was infested with bed bugs.
Michelle Hopkins filed a suit yesterday after the insects allegedly feasted on her in the Manhattan hotel that doubled as her dorm.
"I can't sleep anymore, I haven't slept in forever," Hopkins said, breaking into tears in her lawyer's office. "I'm petrified."
A student housing crunch at Fordham led Hopkins to find a room through Educational Housing Services, which leases four floors of rooms from the New Yorker Hotel at Eighth Ave. and 34th St
Colleges often use nearby hotels as a way to supply rooms to students but we were surprised the New Yorker was being used as a dorm since it is undergoing a huge renovation with completion expected around August 2008. Additionally, Hopkins is suing the hotel's owner and manager which happens to be Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church and Ramada Worldwide. Moonies own a hotel?
[Photo: WallyG]
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