Tag: NYC history
The House That Ate Its Owners: The Collyer Brothers Mystery 🏚️
In the bustling heart of Harlem, New York, during the 1940s, there stood a brownstone mansion that seemed to belong to another world. Number 2078 Fifth Avenue was a decaying relic, a three-story building with shattered windows boarded up by rusted iron. It sat like a rotting tooth in a row of smiles, a stark contrast to the lively city around it. For decades, the neighbors had whispered rumors about the "Ghost House." Some said it was empty; others claimed it was cursed. But on a crisp morning in March 1947, a mysterious phone call to the police would reveal that the truth was far stranger than any ghost story.
