A violent ex-con squatting in a swanky West Village building has allegedly spent months terrorizing his neighbors — who say he has turned his apartment into a “flophouse” and regularly threatens to kill them.
Tenants and the landlord say Melvin DeJesus weaseled his way into an elderly man’s rent-controlled apartment in the desirable location, at 400 Bleecker St., last summer, and then never left when the man died later that year.
“He says he’s going to kill the tenants and he’s ready to die,” said one neighbor in the building, where a two-bedroom unit recently rented for $6,700 a month…