"The Upper West Side's "got a lot of life, and so its stories of the afterlife are similarly vibrant and relational.""
"Edward Clark had made all his money by being the lawyer who helped Isaac Singer get the patents for the Singer Sewing Machine,"
"The Singer Sewing Machine money went into what at the time was known as 'Clark's Folly,' a nickname given to the building by skeptics of its location on an all-but-barren Upper West Side."
"Workmen have noticed a figure and when they see a picture of Edward Clark they're like, 'That's the guy who was watching over some of the renovations through the years.'"
Guided walking tours focus on the sites behind New York City ghost stories and feature the Upper West Side's active paranormal scene. The Dakota Apartments at West 72nd Street and Central Park West has long attracted ghost lore. Edward Clark, who funded the building with Singer Sewing Machine patent money and died in 1882 before its completion, is reported to linger and has been identified by workmen. John Lennon and Yoko Ono were notable tenants; Ono reported seeing Lennon appear and reassure her after his 1980 killing at the building entrance. Boris Karloff once lived in the basement, and local lore says children were afraid to trick-or-treat there.
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