Earlier this year we saw the trailer for Ghost: The Musical, but were quickly disappointed when we saw the show was only running in London. Well now we've received word in our inbox that "the supernatural power of love" is coming to Broadway's Nederlander Theater in April, 2012. We sent the trailer around the Gothamist office to find out if this would be a good show for our annual, mandatory Gothamist theater field trip... and things aren't looking so good: more ›

Halloween is just around the corner, and amNewYork takes a look at one of New York City's most famous ghosts: the movie Ghost! (R.I.P. Patrick Swayze.) The movie is set in pre-Giuliani New York—1990 to be exact—and more specifically in SoHo. One local told the paper about that era of the city, saying, “I think 1990 might have been just sort of the cusp of the change. I think the city had turned a corner.” more ›

Another one to file under: "Just in time for Halloween." The Chelsea Hotel bloggers received a desperate cry for answers after a tourist spent three nights at the hotel, only to be menaced on her final evening by the ghost of Dylan Thomas! She was with her boyfriend, but he slept soundly through the sighting. She reports back from Room 114: more ›

The fourth annual memorial ride and walk for cyclists and pedestrians killed in New York City took place yesterday. Groups of cyclists met with families of the deceased at the sites of 14 fatal bike accidents in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan. Memorials were held at each accident scene, and new "Ghost Bikes"—painted white with small plaques—were put in place as detailed reminders of the fatalities. The DOT has yet to release official numbers on fatalities in 2008, but according to last year's report, 23 cyclists were killed in 2007, up from 18 in 2006. more ›

So, do you think they hand out good Halloween candy here? more ›

Since moving into a Brooklyn Heights apartment occupied by author H.P. Lovecraft in the '20s, a pair of roommates have been having some weird experiences. A picture "mysteriously leaped off" the wall, the hammer used to hang the picture disappeared, a Ouija board seance really freaked everybody out, and a humming noise has gone unexplained. One of the tenants, Nellie Kurtzman (daughter of famous Mad Magazine founding editor Harvey Kurtzman), tells the Post she doesn't believe in ghosts, but she concedes that the apartment, which Lovecraft described as "something unwholesome, something furtive, something vast lying subterraneanly in obnoxious slumber" in his story "The Horror at Red Hook," is weird. Or maybe Lovecraft is just pissed about having "two Jews living here." more ›