Experience the comprehensive New York history of death, burial, epidemics, and execution on this epic 2.¾ hour tour (based on the book Death in New York) through Battery Park, the Financial District, Tribeca, the Civic Center, and Chinatown!

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 location of some of Manhattan’s historic prisons, executions, excavated dead, and President Lincoln’s New York funeral procession at City Hall Park.

Observe the site of body-snatching and rioting at the African Burial Ground.

Inspect the death toll stats of past and present jails in the Civic Center.

Survey an ever-evolving neighborhood on a funeral industry street in Chinatown.

Pay a visit to the oldest existing Jewish graveyard in North America in the area of Two Bridges.

Lower Manhattan Map