A six-story apartment building is going up on the lot between the landmarked Cook Mansion (aka Catherine Lipsius House, aka Spooky Mansion) and the elevated M train tracks, which means that the little ugly KFC will likely get swallowed by the construction, reported YIMBY today

If this headline freaked you out, take it easy: you still have over two months to work on your Halloween costume

Who doesn’t love the sight of the beautiful and very likely haunted Catherina Lipsius House, also known to Bushwick residents as The Spooky Mansion on Willoughby and Bushwick Aves? You’ll be happy to hear that it shall stand even more proudly, with all its ghosts and creepy secrets, because it was named one of the city’s new landmarks at a NYC Landmark Preservation Commission hearing yesterday