Accused serial squatter takes over $1M home in tree-lined NYC neighborhood: ‘Awful situation’
Residents of an upscale Queens neighborhood are enraged over a brazen serial squatter who moved into a local $1.1 million home — and it’s not the first time he’s pulled off the scam, according to a report.
Accused con man Vernon Glass parked himself in the million-dollar home in the quiet, tree-lined community of Bayside more than two years ago, after the 2018 death of elderly homeowner and longtime resident Richard Klibschon, ABC Eyewitness News reported.
Incensed locals called the cops, reach out to their elected officials and even went to court to try to boot him — to no avail.
“This is an awful situation,” local US Rep. Tom Suozzi told the outlet.
“A fraudster is wrecking the quality of life for the entire neighborhood. While it’s not a federal issue, we all need to do everything we can do to right this wrong.”
The home at 2340 205th St. had remained vacant after Klibschon, who lived alone and had no family, passed away, according to the report.
But that changed in March 2024, when neighbors first spotted the unwanted occupant who moved in.
A man at the home Sunday kicked a reporter for The Post off “his” property and lashed out at local residents, outrageously claiming that the “only thing you should be reporting on is this racist ass block.”
The man living in the home as been described as an “illegal occupant” in court papers, with residents reporting that his presence in the quiet neighborhood makes them “increasingly apprehensive, uneasy and very concerned.”
But despite their best efforts, the residents have yet to get him evicted.
It’s not the first squatter scam Glass has allegedly pull off, Eyewitness News noted.
Glass also is accused of moving into a vacant Nassau County, LI, home in 2018, changing the locks and renting out the property to three people for more than $9,000, ABC reported at the time.
In that case, he ended up getting kicked out and sentenced to five years probation on a misdemeanor in December 2019, the outlet said.
Glass and a gal pal allegedly also once took over a home in Flushing “by force” and “without permission,” according to court papers filed in that case — but the legit homeowners dropped their suit after the house went into foreclosure and their bills started adding up.
That’s when the squatter believed to be Glass showed up in the quiet Bayside neighborhood.
ABC reporter Dan Krauth recently approached him outside the Queens home and asked if he lived there.
“Yes, but I don’t want to be on the news,” the squatter said before rushing into the house.