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HOTEL FROM HELL

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A hotel can be the perfect setting for a spooky fright-fest (anyone seen "The Shining"?) and the New York City College of Technology is extending a ghoulish invitation to the public to check into its own "Haunted Hotel" beginning Thursday, Oct. 28 (from noon to 8 pm) at the Voorhees Theatre (186 Jay St. at Tillary Street) in Downtown Brooklyn.

This is the fifth year that the "hotel" has been resurrected. Last year, the animatronic pirate, talking skeletons and other gothic residents even attracted a visit from Borough President Marty Markowitz (pictured), who bravely laughed in the face of a ghoul clearly thirsting for blood.

This year’s "Haunted Hotel" will have an upside down room, animated sitting room, graveyard, dumbwaiter "accident," living portrait, bloody bathroom and basement coffin.

If at the end of your hotel stay you’ve become embarrassed by your terrified exclamations (and soiled underwear), you can take comfort that you’re not alone. An exit video will allow you to watch - and mock - other frightened patrons still inside the hotel.

The "Haunted Hotel" will also be open Oct. 29, from 10 am to 4 pm, and Oct. 30, from 4 to 9 pm. Unlike many only slightly less scary hotels, the rates here are very affordable: admission is $2, $1 for children 12 and younger. For more information, call (718) 260-5588.

- Lisa J. Curtis

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