The 10 Creepiest Buildings in Brooklyn
Herman Behr Mansion: 82 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights
The branches hang over the front of this house just so, like out of a Tales from the Crypt panel. But it’s creepier for other reasons: its height, its stone, its spires, its tiled roof, the way they all combine to create something grand yet mysterious. And then there’s the ornamentation. It’s “one of the real treats of Brooklyn Heights,” the Times once wrote, “a Romanesque color-fantasy of salmon brick, terra cotta and rockfaced sandstone with crazy animal ornament reminiscent of modern, violent comic books—grimacing lizards, lions and dragons.”