When you enter the Ridgewood Asylum a bloody hand-painted sign at the entrance is your first cue that there’s an elaborate story involved. So it goes (roughly): the “Ridgewood Asylum” was reconstructed from the “Ridgewood Slaughterhouse” as a psychiatric rehabilitation center. 

As you can imagine, doctors used unconventional and inhumane treatments against patients with mental illnesses and unthinkable horror ensued; five years ago, a group of kids entered the building, also never to be seen again. Trapped here you will find the demonic nurse, twisted little girl, and other likewise sights.

Directed and produced by Jorge Mdahuar and Jon Gneezy, owners of Ridgewood standby The Deep End, they also have a history of putting on haunted house-themed escape rooms in  gallery space neighboring the bar. This year, they say they’ve outgrown the original space and have moved the “Ridgewood Asylum” to 94 Bogart Street in neighboring Bushwick.