A homeless sex offender parolee with a long criminal history arrested for an unprovoked slap attack on a 20-year-old NYU student was nabbed in a vacant penthouse apartment in a university-owned building — with belongings stolen from his unsuspecting neighbors, prosecutors say.

A day after allegedly slapping NYU student Amelia Lewis on the buttocks as she walked to class in Greenwich Village Monday morning, cops found suspect James Rizzo holed up six blocks away in a penthouse apartment in Washington Square Village. Lewis’ account of the attack went viral after she posted herself speaking out on TikTok.

The NYU-owned building where Rizzo, 45, was caught houses a large number of faculty and a small number of graduate students as well as some tenants not affiliated with the school at al

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