Welcome back to Horror Street, my ongoing journey in search of awesome yet spooky graffiti art on the streets and little-traveled corners of New York City!

With the Spooky Season in full effect right now, and today being the Monday the 13th (yes, okay, I know it’s not Friday, but…close enough for horror, right?), who better to drop in on than that ghost with the most, the one and only Beetlejuice!

I stumbled across the cinematic supernatural superstar this past summer, while wandering the streets of East Williamsburgh, in Brooklyn—a very popular industrialized neighborhood rich in street art. (I’ll have other pieces to show from that area in future Horror Street entries.)

There’s a good chance you’ll still be able to find BJ haunting East Williamsburgh—as temporary as mural art tends to be, sometimes the really good ones can remain untouched and unchanged for years. So, go hunt down that pesky ol’ ghost; be sure to tell him Lydia Deetz sent you!

Stay tuned for further installments of Horror Street—there’s plenty of macabre graffiti art to be found on the streets of New York, if you look in the right creepy places! And be sure to check out my previous HS entries: the Brooklyn Vampire, the demonic D-Rod, Where the Gene Wilder Things Are, the beast called Queens’thluhu, the scarifying Ghoulmobile, the regal Griffin, the Spooky Forest, and the Demon Door!

(Photo © 2025 Steven A. Roman)