2 hours (approx.)
Daily Tour
15 people
English
Experience four centuries of Death in New York on this thrilling 2-hour 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.
Travelers will have a view of Staten Island, the Statue of Liberty, and Governor’s Island and learn about Lenape history, ancient burial sites, the last NYC pirate execution, and Civil War prisoners.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Travelers will see a Catholic shrine to a New York saint while hearing about the canonization of saints and the Catholic way of death.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Travelers will visit a cenotaph and discover Titanic history relevant to the cenotaph.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Travelers will hear more indigenous history and stories linked with funerary museum acquisitions.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Travelers will find out about New Amsterdam burial history by visiting the site of the first city cemetery.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Travelers will hear about epidemic history, burial prohibitions, and potters fields.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Travelers will hear about the Irish representation at St. Paul’s graveyard.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Travelers will hear about Catholic history; the New York ban on Catholicism, and the first New York Catholic burial ground.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Travelers will visit the site of the first NYC almshouse and hear stories relating to Bellevue Hospital, embalming, President Lincoln’s funeral, and excavating the dead.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
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