The Son Who Couldn’t Leave

The Son Who Couldn’t Leave

Paul Barreto moved into Room 2565 at the New Yorker Hotel the year after his father, Mickey Barretto, did. It was 2019 and the 135-square-foot queen-bed room in Midtown Manhattan felt like it could be a good home, or at least a better one. It was nothing like where Paul, then 13, had most recently been living with his mother in California: There were no mice running around, no one was fighting outside his window and no strangers were stopping by…