‘In October 2017, Knox said, his code wouldn’t open the gate to allow access to his storage unit in Cheektowaga. He had rented it years earlier and filled it with items that had overwhelmed the leaky basement of his small home near Delaware Park. Bins of family photos, documents and memorabilia, artwork and seasonal clothes. Knox walked into the manager’s office to address the issue – they knew him, he said – and the woman behind the desk stammered. “Mr. Knox, I don’t know how to tell you this,” he recalled hearing, “but you don’t have your unit here anymore.” He had defaulted.’