Closing Bell: Haunted in Greenpoint

Yesterday Lost City photographed a “haunted house” in Greenpoint on Oak Street. As LNYC says, “The building dominates the corner, and gives it the feeling of a Hollywood stage set that is ready for a Halloween scene 24/7. The trees and lawn are overgrown. The fallen leaves lie unraked. The fence is rusted. The whole place is unkempt, but wonderfully grand.” The building, just inside the Greenpoint HD, was commissioned by the Guernsey Street family and built in 1887 by Theobald Mark Engelhardt. It was first known as the Greenpoint Home for the Aged, until it fell into the city’s hands and then finally ended up as an SRO. Residents refused to leave when the building was put up for sale in 2008 but, according to LNYC, “the residents appear to be dying one by one. Who knows how many are left now.” Spooky.
Oak Street’s Haunted House [Lost NY]