Death in New York Walking Tour

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

Event Venue

Lower Manhattan, Lower Manhattan, New York, NY, United States