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Haunted Houses of Bed-Stuy 10/31
By The Changeling | October 31, 2007
I thought that I had seen some scary haunted houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, but Alexa 11221 showed me one that might possibly be the scariest. This horrorfest is located on Lewis Avenue and some cross street that I don’t remember. (Help me out, Alexa!) The house was huge and I imagine that it must have looked wonderful in its day.
The trash strewn area was a horrible sight, and all of the boarded up windows suggested that something wicked lurked inside.
Even the sidewalk looked scary! Alexa11221 called these “plates” and mentioned something about the area looking like a bunch of shifting plates.
Along the side of the house we found an abandoned fish tank that probably contained the spirit of a long-dead goldfish in it.
The stairs to the front door were covered in police tape. Who knows how many people must’ve died here?
The ever-vigilant Dept. of Sanitation was on the case! I think the surprising thing about this is that there were two tickets taped to this property. ONLY TWO. I didn’t look at the dates on the tickets, but they looked like they’d been there for a mighty long time.
Alexa11221 and I couldn’t figure out if this was a chicken coop or a pigeon roost, but neither one of us was willing to get close enough to find out.
When we found this open door my heart screamed, “REDRUM! REDRUM! REDRUM! REDRUM!“* I just knew 1000 corpses were just beyond this rusty door. This was the scariest house I’d seen all month!
Happy Halloween!
*”The Shining” reference. Don’t know? Google it.
October 31st, 2007 at 8:18 am
O.k. - This one was funny!
October 31st, 2007 at 8:43 am
Hahaha. This is beyond a “haunted house”… this is Creepville.
October 31st, 2007 at 10:18 am
This looks like a good investment on a great avevue!
October 31st, 2007 at 10:53 am
good investment, yeah if you have tons of dough to put into it.
I’ve walked past this a bunch of times, and always thought it was cute how the fence was so low for such a big house.
yes, be careful of the basements you never know what’s lurking there!
new front steps will cost you at least $5,000.
Lets give it some credit, it does have a nice wrap around corniche.
October 31st, 2007 at 12:03 pm
It’s located at Madison and Lewis.
October 31st, 2007 at 12:53 pm
It is kind of sad to see these pictures. There is no excuse to allow a building to go to pieces (literally) like this.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Lewis is near Stuyvescant Heights, oh my.
October 31st, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Thanks, LawDiva. I couldn’t for the life of me make out the cross street.
October 31st, 2007 at 8:33 pm
It’s on Madison & Lewis, diagonally across from the Cornerstone Baptist Church.
The sidewalk is broken because there was a dumpster there and when they removed the dumpster they broke the sidewalk. It’s been like that for MONTHS!
What I said about the sidewalk was that when I had to cross the broken part I always thought of the scene in Uncle Tom’s Cabin where Eliza crosses the river by jumping from one ice floe to another.
This is a city-owned building, which I suppose means that it will eventually be fixed up. And adds to the outrage.
The building on the other side of Madison (facing it) is almost identical in size and design and looks great.
November 1st, 2007 at 1:02 am
I remember that you pointed out the unhaunted twin building across the street. I wish I had thought to take a picture of it for comparison.
November 1st, 2007 at 10:15 am
The building is city owned?! How ridiculous. I actually live on this block, so I see the monstrosity daily.
There were reports last winter of people hiding in this building and trying to lure kids there. We had a huge neighborhood campaign regarding the incident, but all has been quiet since.
November 1st, 2007 at 12:48 pm
talk about scary.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:28 pm
That is scary, how is the neighborhood otherwise LawDiva. What kind of house do you live in there?
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:26 pm
The neighborhood is pretty good. I haven’t had any problems, and I have been there for a year. I actually heard about the aforementioned issue through neighbors and the distribution of fliers. Although it’s a horrible situation, there was a little solace in knowing that the community is aware of problems in the area and willing to work together for improvement.