NYC officials shutter illegal hotel operating in Queens home

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials say they’ve shut down a Queens house that was operating as an illegal hotel and going as far as to offer tents in a backyard at a rate of $21 per night.
   The Queens home was hit with a partial vacate order after being deemed “imminently perilous to life.” The Daily News reports the Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement found 27 mattresses crammed into two floors, four guests and one permanent resident during an ins