The 10 Creepiest Buildings in Brooklyn
122 76th Street, Bay Ridge
This gigantic home was built at the top of a hill so steep city engineers couldn’t cut a street through it—so they built a Montmartre-style staircase instead. In fall and winter, the leaves of the trees fall away, exposing the grand enormity of this Gothic mansion. “Whoever designed it, and whoever commissioned it, they had a great sense of drama,” Brownstoner once wrote. “The turrets, towers, peaked windows and copper bays on the stucco body are really well done.” And super scary!
