The Ridgewood Asylum—"NYC's scariest Haunted house and Escape Room"—is back for its fifth year with its biggest production yet. Running through November from 8 pm until midnight, the production has moved to a larger location this year, now found at 94 Bogart St between Johnson Ave and Ingraham St.
The freaky brainchild of the two owners of the Deep End bar, this interactive haunted house and escape room centers on the story of a gruesome massacre that took place in a Ridgewood slaughterhouse in the summer of 1972, after which the building was condemned, demolished and rebuilt as a psychiatric rehabilitation center. Naturally, paranormal powers still linger in the old asylum all these decades later.
Along with the physical venue, the concept will also expand with an added bar and food area dubbed Jack O Lantern's Disco Lounge and Urban Pumpkin Patch. The latter will be an art installation modeled after a farm pumpkin patch, where attendees can stock up on apple cider doughnuts, caramel apples, hot cider and all of the nostalgic seasonal snacks you usually find at those upstate roadside attractions. It'll be just the sweet thing you need to soothe those jumpscares and jitters after "surviving" the haunted house.
Tickets cost $30 for general admission or $40 for VIP, which grants you skip-the-line access and a complimentary drink, and can be purchased on the Ridgewood Asylum website.