Twilight Tour: Death in New York (Lower Manhattan)

5.0 (6 reviews) New York City, USA
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Duration1h 45m
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LanguagesEnglish
Group sizeUp to 15 travelers

Overview

Explore New York’s history of death, burial, epidemics, and execution on this 1.75-hour evening walking tour through Lower Manhattan. Discover how centuries of disease, reform, and public policy shaped the city’s streets, institutions, and traditions of remembrance. Visit sites linked to epidemics, capital punishment, and religious controversy, and learn how each reveals a hidden layer of urban history. Based entirely on research rather than legend, this tour offers a clear-eyed and captivating look at how New York’s past continues to shape its present.

What's included

  • All Fees and Taxes

What to expect

  1. Statue of Liberty View Point
    15m
    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.
  2. The Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
    10m
    Travelers will see a Catholic shrine to a New York saint while hearing about the canonization of saints and the Catholic way of death.
  3. Battery Park City
    10m
    Travelers will visit a cenotaph and discover Titanic history relevant to the cenotaph.
  4. National Museum of the American Indian
    10m
    Travelers will hear more indigenous history and stories linked with funerary museum acquisitions.
  5. Charging Bull
    10m
    Travelers will find out about New Amsterdam burial history by visiting the site of the first city cemetery.
  6. Trinity Church NYC
    10m
    Travelers will hear about epidemic history, burial prohibitions, and potters fields.
  7. St. Paul's Chapel
    10m
    Travelers will hear about the Irish representation at St. Paul's graveyard.
  8. St. Peter's Church
    10m
    Travelers will hear about Catholic history; the New York ban on Catholicism, and the first New York Catholic burial ground.
  9. City Hall Park
    15m
    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.

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

The exact meeting point is outside the doors of Manhattan's Whitehall Ferry Terminal (for the Staten Island ferry) at 4 Whitehall Street (under the word “STATEN” in the “STATEN ISLAND FERRY” SIGN above the entrance). The guide will be carrying a folder with the name of the tour on it.

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Additional information

  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Cancellation policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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