When he mentions the month of volunteer work his officers put into the haunted house, he beams.
"So we want to get the kids and teenagers-come meet the police, come into the station house for something good like a haunted house and meet the police officers.who've given their own time to scare them and introduce and meet them."ĭiGiacomo has made the Halloween decorations a passion project for the 78th, which patrols Park Slope, Gowanus, and part of Prospect Heights. "The reason we're doing it is 90 percent of people come into a police precinct for bad things, they don't come in for good things," said Captain Frank DiGiacomo, the Precinct's commanding officer. It seems the police, when they let their imaginations run wild, are pretty damn good at Halloween. In one room, a chained mannequin has been completely disemboweled in a bathtub plastic guts and a bloody sawzall fill an old bathtub. Brave attendees can expect to encounter masked ghouls jumping out of corners, children's dolls covered in gore, severed limbs, and an electric chair scene that's notably terrifying.
Philbert is one of a dozen NYPD officers who are helping to bring the 78th Precinct's haunted basement to life. "I have a great time," he said, "and hopefully we'll be able to scare a lot of people." In fact, for the next two days it's Philbert's off-duty mission to dress this way, as he leads groups of children and adults through the new haunted house constructed in the basement of Brooklyn's 78th Precinct stationhouse in Prospect Heights. Wearing a sheeny black and white ruffled costume (with gruesome mask to match), the young cop looked ready to walk into the role of a demonic referee and/or Insane Clown Posse rhythm guitarist. NYPD officer Clinton Philbert was out of uniform.
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