The ghosts of the Federal Theatre still haunt the 102-year-old movie house, and David Lindoerfer has seen them.

“When I was up here, I felt myself being watched by an entity,” said Lindoerfer, who hopped down from his stage scaffolding to tell the story inside the newly renovated theater. “It had tan clothes and dark hair. I also saw one the other night out of the corner of my eye in the balcony, and I’ve heard things from the lobby and bathrooms that made all my hairs stand up on end.”

The Federal Theatre, which was built in 1923 and has been closed to the public for most of the last 50 years, would seem to invite such visions. Its worn movie-house glamor and pockmarked marquee has stood silently at 3830 Federal Blvd. — near the corner of West 38th Avenue — ever since it stopped showing

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