If I had to pick one house in Greenpoint to set a horror movie in it would be the big old house set back off the street at the corner of Oak and Guernsey streets. The red brick facade, spooky wooden double doors, cast iron railings at the building’s entrance, as well as the iron fence and gate at lawn’s edge all are original, dating to the house’s construction in 1887.

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  2. Wow im i greenpoint native and i was not aware of this . Thanks for sharing this peice of history .

  3. Geoffrey,
    When I worked for ” Red’s Moving and Trucking ” in 1974, we delivered mattresses to them. I remember it being quite dark inside.
    Peter J. Choray
    11/1/17

  4. That’s a good one but I know of one better on McGuiness Blvd between Norman and meserole there was a house that we called the witches house..it was extremely scary in the night and you had a hard time seeing past all the trees and stuff..my mom had me take my communion photo in front of that scary house

  5. When my mom drove up to “ the Avenue” from Sutton St. to go to the Bank and do our other errands quite often we would park facing the house. It was spooky and mysterious to a 10 year old way back even on a bright sunny summer day in 1968!

    2. Not sure if it is for sale. But it is very much still their standing creepy looking as heck. Today 2 old vintage fridges laid on it’s lawn. Which confirms just how old this house is.

  7. There are still a couple vintage fridges outside in the front yard. It looks abandoned. I would guess no one lives there. A Halloween sign on a tree in front says that it’s Haunted. I wonder if it’s known for being haunted or is the sign there because the place actually looks like a haunted house?

  8. People definitely live there. I wandered onto the property cause the gate was open, and a dude came to the door and just looked at me and nodded until I left. I tried talking to him, but he seemed really standoffish.

  9. I grew up in Greenpoint and walked to school every morning past that house. We called it the haunted house in the late 70’s and early 80’s.

    My buddies and I would always challenge each other to walk up to the front door and knock. Only 1 guy had the nerve to walk up and open the door until he saw an elderly person standing in front of him.

    Just went back to visit family and showed our daughter the house…she found it to be cool.

  10. I think the little rascals had done some filming inside this house, back in the day and they usually filmed along west street area as well.

  11. I stopped by there last evening and this older man in his late 50s/60s came walking out of the property with a bike. He saw me looking at the signs and he stated.. “Yes…This place really is haunted and ts actually made in 1886, the internet is wrong…” and I was startled..I said “oh , do you live here?….He quickly answered: “Yes…and there are ghosts…” He then got on his bike and starled pedaling and then looks back at me and says: “And I am a goblin.”…….and then drove off…. I was left a bit freaked the fxxk out.. What the hell is he talking about and he was dead serious when he stated this to me. Has anyone else heard this man say such things I. want to know why he said this to me.

    1. Just pulling your leg to avoid the gawkers. A house this old may have spirits, but they aren’t riding bicycles

  12. I said it because it’s true. I was the first caretaker of that wretched place back in 1887. Just to clarify, I never said goblin. I said that I am the last zombie left to roam those halls.

  13. I grew up in Greenpoint and always loved this house. How I wish I could buy it and restore it to its former glory.

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