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A tourist who says a Big Apple home-share host took her $5,600 and left her family out in the cold last Thanksgiving has slapped the guy with a lawsuit, according to papers filed in Manhattan Supreme court.

Carrie Quinlan says she used VBRO.com to book Alex Freylikhman’s W. 47th Street apartment in December 2016 so her 13-member family could come watch her son’s high school band play in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 11 months later.

But Freylikhman never let them into the pad, so they were forced to scramble for accommodations in outer-borough hotels, costing them an additional $5,000, the suit claims.

“I made the arrangements for my family and suddenly we had no place to stay during one of the busiest weekends in New York City,” she told The Post.

Quinlan is suing for $10,000, punitive damages and her lawyer’s fees. She is also seeking an injunction barring him from advertising rental properties.

Freylikhman did not return a request for comment.

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