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SoHo shoppers aren’t the only ones clutching their wallets this season. A long-abandoned Broadway bank is opening its vaults this October—and what’s inside is far scarier than overdraft fees. Meet The Haunted Bank NYC, a new immersive haunted house that promises blood-curdling shrieks, spine-tingling sets and a story ripped straight from a heist-gone-wrong.
The experience unfolds inside a real bank at 415 Broadway, where a botched robbery in the 1980s left whispers of blood and betrayal in its wake. The vault was sealed, the crime scene boarded up—until now. Guests begin in the Teller Room, where business-as-usual quickly goes violently sideways. From there, each turn plunges you deeper into the bank’s cursed history: a CEO’s office marked by betrayal, a vault mid-robbery with masked criminals who may not take kindly to witnesses and a mining tunnel where something decidedly inhuman still claws at the walls.
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But the horror doesn’t stay underground. The story bleeds into the streets of New York, pulling you through a shadowy alley, a butcher shop dripping with gore and even a derelict hospital wing tended by a nurse with a very loose definition of “patient care.” Every room blends elaborate sets, eerie soundscapes and a cast of actors who specialize in getting under your skin (and occasionally, right in your face).
The production leans on the bank’s lore—the so-called ‘Broadway Heist,’ when bankers claimed the vault felt unnaturally cold and witnesses swore the dead never really left. “Once the site of a botched heist, this Broadway bank was boarded up after a night of blood and betrayal. Decades later, the vault has reopened… but something still waits inside,” the creators tease.
Think of it as part haunted house, part immersive theater, part vault of nightmares. And unlike most banks, this one doesn’t care about your credit score—it just wants your soul.
The Haunted Bank NYC opens this fall at 415 Broadway in Soho.