Happy Halloween from Roosevelt Island - A Way Station Between This World and the Next?

For Halloween. Is Roosevelt Island a portal to the Netherworld? According to an entry in the NY Times City Room Blog about haunted NYC, Kate Davey, the co-founder of the Web site finding Dulcinea, and an expert in paranormal history reports that:

Roosevelt Island was the location for the 2005 movie “Dark Water,” about a recently divorced mother and her daughter who move into a haunted apartment. Screenwriter Rafael Yglesias said about the island’s ghostly aura: “Someone once said to me that when you’re driving on East River Drive in the rain and the fog and you look over at Roosevelt Island, it almost looks as though it’s a way station between this world and the next.”
Via Roosevelt Island 360. More Halloween from Roosevelt Island 360 here.

Another tale of haunted Roosevelt Island from Ms. Davey includes:

“The Tap Dance Kid,” a 1983 Broadway musical about a Roosevelt Island family’s dancing ambitions, features a ghost, in the form of a deceased grandfather who pays an encouraging visit to his grandson during the night.

Above video of an eerie Southpoint Park at night is from Brightcove.tv

If not a passageway to the Netherworld perhaps Roosevelt Island is just haunted by ghosts of previous residents from Renwick Ruins, the former Smallpox hospital. Below is an unauthorized nighttime visit to the spooky ruins by a crew of brave and intrepid explorers when ...



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