Food Network squatter Madison Cowan’s gone but NYC is still pro-thief
NY Post
Score another one for law and order in the Big Apple: Food Network squatter Madison Cowan has lost his perch.
The celebrity chef has exploited the legal chaos around squatting in New York City for 4½ years, racking up more than $145,000 in unpaid rent on a pad in tony Boerum Hill, not paying a cent since January 2020.
At first, he worked the insanely overextended state COVID-era eviction moratorium.
When that nonsense ended in 2022, he ducked and dodged through a legal system that extends every possible courtesy to thieves like him and places a massive onus on rightful owners — skirting five separate eviction orders.
He’s gone now, thank goodness.
But the actual owner of the place expects not to see a dime of the six-figure sum Cowan owes him.