Explore four centuries of death in New York on a thrilling night tour. Discover burial sites, epidemics, and historic jails in 1 hour, 45 minutes.
- Statue of Liberty View Point - Visitors will enjoy views of Staten Island, the Statue of Liberty, and Governor’s Island while learning about Lenape history, ancient burial sites, the last NYC pirate execution, and Civil War prisoners.
- Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton - Visitors will see a Catholic shrine dedicated to a New York saint and hear about the canonization of saints and Catholic burial traditions.
- Battery Park City - Visitors will explore a cenotaph and uncover Titanic history related to it.
- National Museum of the American Indian - Visitors will delve into indigenous history and stories connected to funerary museum collections.
- Charging Bull (Wall Street Bull) - Visitors will learn about New Amsterdam’s burial history by visiting the site of the first city cemetery.
- Trinity Church - Visitors will hear about epidemic history, burial prohibitions, and potter’s fields.
- St. Paul’s Chapel - Visitors will learn about the Irish presence at St. Paul’s graveyard.
- St. Peter’s Church - Visitors will discover Catholic history, the New York ban on Catholicism, and the first Catholic burial ground in New York.
- City Hall Park - Visitors will visit the site of the first NYC almshouse and hear stories related to Bellevue Hospital, embalming, President Lincoln’s funeral, and the excavation of the dead.
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Experience four centuries of Death in New York on this thrilling 1 hour, 45 minute night walk!
Main Features:
Peer at the Lenape burial, capital punishment, and prisoner of war islands of New York Harbor from Battery Park.
Discover the controversy surrounding museum death acquisitions and exhibits at the National Museum of the American Indian.
Unearth the history of epidemics and burial prohibitions at Trinity Church.
See the cenotaphs of Irish war heroes and political activists at St. Paul’s Chapel.
Learn about the first NYC Catholic burial ground and the ensuing riot at St. Peter’s Church.
Visit the site of Manhattan’s historic jails, executions, excavated dead, and President Lincoln’s New York funeral procession at City Hall Park.
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