![]() ![]() The city’s first great writer, Washington Irving, both popularized and satirized urban legends, spinning his most famous yarn The Legend of Sleepy Hollow out of the misty superstitions of Westchester County. But that’s not the only reason the Big Apple is so frightfully haunted. Old places generally accumulate their share of ghost tales, and New York is certainly old indeed - over 400 years old. Some even claim the Brooklyn Bridge is haunted, although I pity that mournful apparition on a crowded Saturday afternoon. If you are attuned to such things, our parks are haunted, our bars and restaurants, our churches and theaters. Mark’s Church-In-The-Bowery, Gilded Age-era spirits roaming the halls of the Dakota Apartments or even the apparitions of suicide victims at the Empire State Building. You can’t stroll down a sidewalk in New York without tripping over an old ghost story, whether it be the restless spirit of Peter Stuyvesant over at St. New York is a city of eight million stories, and many of them are about ghosts. NOTE: This article is an extensively updated version of a piece I wrote for Huffington Post back in 2012. ![]() (After all, isn’t that what we’re here for?) Here’s a little tribute to some of our favorite haunted homes - which also just happen to be fascinating historic sites. You can find our back catalog of ghost story podcasts here. For fifteen years now, The Bowery Boys: New York City History podcast has featured a special Halloween show focusing on some of New York City’s scariest tales. ![]()
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