City Sues Owners of Notoriously Dirty Times Square Hotel

The Hotel Carter in Times Square — known for murders, suicides, bedbugs, and winning TripAdvisor’s “dirtiest hotel” award multiple years — is apparently still a hellhole. This week, The Real Deal reports, the city filed a civil lawsuit against owners Joseph and Meyer Chetrit, accusing them of creating a public-safety nuisance with more than 155 violations and abandoning the property after defaulting on their mortgage earlier this year.

The hotel, which opened in 1930, was never one of the swankiest places to stay in the city (there was a bus terminal in the base for nearly three decades), but it wasn’t until the 1970s that things really went downhill. It was rebranded from the Dixie…