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
