Death in New York Walking Tour

Immerse yourself in New York’s rich history of death, burial, epidemics, and execution on this in-depth 2.75-hour tour, exploring Battery Park, the Financial District, Tribeca, the Civic Center, and Chinatown. Tour Highlights: 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 at the National Museum of the American Indian. Unearth the history of epidemics at Trinity Church. See the cenotaphs of Irish political activists at St. Paul’s Chapel. Learn about the first NYC Catholic burial ground at St. Peter’s Church. Visit the location of some of Manhattan’s historic prisons and executions at City Hall Park. Observe the site of body-snatching at the African Burial Ground Survey a funeral industry street in Chinatown. Pay a visit to the oldest existing Jewish graveyard in North America in Two Bridges.

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