Halloween – Scouting NY

A Mental Asylum Cemetery Hidden In The Woods

On Call Hollow Road, in the Pomona/Stony Point area about 25 miles north of the city, there is a trail […]

I figured today was the perfect day to post one of my all-time favorite EC Comics covers from the 1950s,

Last week, I was heading home from a day of scouting in Westchester when I found myself passing through Sleepy

Happy Halloween! -SCOUT

Looking for something spooky to watch this Halloween? Why not pick a horror movie set in New York! Longtime Scouting

With Halloween just around the corner, I figured it’s the perfect time to put together a list of the best

I’m always on the lookout for creative Halloween decorations every year, and I thought this was neat… Spiders have taken

Though I always try to keep Scouting NY as positive as possible, I have to make an exception with this

This is why I love scouting the Bronx. Because you’ll be driving down a street lined with typical Bronx apartment

Every October, I make it a point to take a walk down Bleecker Street and check out the Ralph Lauren

One of my favorite cemeteries in New York is so small, I must have walked by it dozens of times

As I was exploring New York City’s cemeteries for my recent article on the Titanic, I ended up shooting a

Though Manhattan Bistro might seem like your typical Soho eatery, hidden beneath its dining room lies a secret…

The other day, I was scouting the old Customs House building when I suddenly got the feeling I was being

I don’t believe in ghosts, but if there’s one book that has ever made me wonder, it’s Grave’s End by

Scouting NY is having a Halloween contest in which you submit a picture of your favorite local eerie property and

While searching the NY Times archives recently, I stumbled on a bunch of amusing articles about New York City hauntings

At the corner of Richmond Ave and Amsterdam Place on Staten Island… …is a decaying graveyard known as New Springville

Halloween is the only time of the year that I actually pay attention to store window displays, and I’m always

“New York, You’ve Changed” is a new Scouting NY feature in which the New York depicted in movies is compared

“The sequestered situation of this church seems always to have made it a favorite haunt of troubled spirits…To look upon