Posted on 11/11/2025 3:52:36 AM PST by MtnClimber
It was only just over a week ago — Halloween day, actually — that I had a post on the scariest houses in Greenwich Village. As the scariest house of all, I picked the one at 80 Washington Place, which had recently been the alleged site of rigged poker games where wealthy marks had gotten fleeced out of millions of dollars.
Today, in a weekly column titled “Gimme Shelter,” the New York Post provides an update on that very house. It’s on the market! The headline is “Luxury NYC pad used in the NBA gambling scandal has listed for $22.5M — mere weeks after massive bust.”
Here is the picture of the house that I took and included in my October 31 post:
It turns out that someone did a no-expense-spared renovation of this place back in 2011. The Post includes multiple pictures from the real estate listing. Here’s a shot of the back of the building:
The kitchen and dining room:
It’s a total of 8700 square feet. Six bedrooms, six bathrooms, and three half-baths. There are four landscaped terraces, in addition to the backyard. And it’s just steps from Washington Square Park, with views of both that park and of One World Trade Center.
And the whole thing can be yours for only $22.5 million. You could pay for it all with just a few quick poker games.
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Meh, I have a fireplace in my master bedroom too. I have four fireplaces total, two downstairs and two upstairs. Kind of a waste being it is in Florida, but it is in the 30’s right now.
Manhattan Contrarian ping
$22.5 million is just ever so slightly out of my price range.
How much for a cardboard box in the alleyway?
$2,728,100 Winter Haven, FL 33884 4 beds, 6 baths, 12,822 sq ft on Lake Summit.
Here is the scariest house in Greenwich Village.
81 Bedford Street in Greenwich Village, New York City, was used by the CIA as a safe house for LSD research and mind-control experiments as part of the secret Project MKUltra (specifically a subproject known as Operation Midnight Climax). They ran it as a workhouse and the women were instructed to put LSD in their “John’s” drinks.
The safe house was run by a federal narcotics agent and CIA contractor named George Hunter White, who used the alias “Morgan Hall”. Beginning in 1953, White posed as an artist or seaman to lure unsuspecting individuals back to the apartment, where they were given LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge or consent. The apartment was outfitted with two-way mirrors and recording equipment, allowing White and other agents to secretly observe and record the subjects’ behavior while they were under the influence of the drugs.
The goal of these experiments was to study the effects of LSD and other substances for potential use in interrogations, psychological warfare, and developing a “truth serum”.
workhouse = whorehouse
Darn spellchecker!
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