{"id":4333,"date":"2016-11-03T11:58:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T15:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/content-manager\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2016-11-03T11:59:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T15:59:12","slug":"spooky-buildings-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/blog\/spooky-buildings-in-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Spooky Buildings In New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Octagon. Photo by\u00a0stu_spivack (CC BY-SA 2.0)<\/em><\/p>\n When you\u2019re in the process of renting an apartment, there are thousands of things you need to cover. What\u2019s included in the rent? What\u2019s the lease terms? Is it pet friendly? Those are commonly asked questions for renters. One question that\u2019s rarely asked however, is if there has been any brutal murders, suicides, or spooky events happening in the building?<\/span><\/p>\n Most of us assume that if there had been, we would be informed. However, the New York Law does not require brokers or landlord to disclose this information. Would you change your mind about the perfect apartment if you found out someone was murdered in it? \u00a0Check out this post to see if your building has some spooky history attached to it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 1.\u00a0129 Mulberry St<\/strong><\/p>\n On April 7, 1972, one of the most notorious mobsters, Joey Gallo, nicknamed Crazy Joe for his extreme criminal behavior and love for violence, was celebrating his 43rd birthday after a long night out at Umberto\u2019s Clam House, located at 129 Mulberry St. 2.\u00a082-70 Austin St, Queens<\/strong><\/p>\n March 16, 1964 marked one of the darkest nights in New York City history. 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was coming home from work at a bar around 3:15 am, when she caught the eye of predator and necrophiliac, Winston Moseley. He chased her down and began stabbing her. Winston was scared off by some neighbors turning their lights on. However, the neighbors turned their lights off and went back to sleep, allowing the killer to return. Winston proceeded to stab her twelve more times, rape her, and leave her dead in her foyer.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0150-22 72nd Drive, Kew Gardens, Queens<\/strong><\/p>\n In 1965, Alice Crimmins\u2019 two children, Eddie Jr., 5, and Missy, 4, went missing from the Crimmins\u2019 apartment. Missy was found strangled just a few days after they went missing. Eddie\u2019s corpse was found later on, too decomposed to gather evidence. The mother\u2019s promiscuous reputation along with her nonchalant reaction, lead the media to believe that she had murdered her children. With no physical evidence connecting Alice to the crime, she was tried and found guilty in 1968.<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0200 Water St. Financial District<\/strong><\/p>\n In 2008, the Russian model Ruslana Korshunova lost her life after leaping out of her ninth floor apartment in the Financial District<\/a>. Being constantly mistreated by men and missing her family, Ruslana turned to a cult called Rose of the World for guidance. Days after joining this cult, Ruslana chose to take her own life, cutting a hole in construction netting and landing 28 feet away from the building she leapt from.<\/p>\n 5.\u00a0242 Fifth Ave<\/strong><\/p>\n In 1920 the most mysterious murder of all time took place. Joseph Elwell was found dead in his beautiful NoMad apartment. The only evidence left behind was a kimono. The spooky thing about his death was that the door was locked, it had never been unlocked, officials concluded that it was physically impossible for someone to have left the room after the murder. So the question is, are they still there? This case was left unsolved.<\/p>\n 6.\u00a0169 Avenue B<\/strong><\/p>\n The love died in 1967, when hippies and lovers James Hutchinson and Linda Fitzpatrick were bludgeoned to death in their East Village<\/a> apartment. Linda Fitzpatrick came from a wealthy family in Greenwich, CT and James Hutchinson was a wanderer from Rhode Island. All about peace and love, luck was just not on this couple\u2019s side.<\/p>\n
\nJoey was struck with five bullets, although 20 were apparently exchanged in the crossfire by his accompanied gangsters. Umberto\u2019s Clam House later moved a few blocks away, but the scene of the crime was converted to an apartment building.<\/p>\n