The last vestige of the flophouses that once dotted Times Square is about to go the way of the porn shops and crime that made the area infamous.

The dilapidated Hotel Carter was named three times by TripAdvisor Inc. as the dirtiest hotel in the U.S., with online reviewers in recent years complaining of cockroaches, bedbugs and the smell of garbage. In 1999, a clerk killed a co-worker near the front desk and another body was found under a bed a few years later.

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