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Twilight Tour: Death in New York (Lower Manhattan)
New York City, New York, USA
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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.
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Twilight Tour: Death in New York (Lower Manhattan)
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes
Availability depends on seasonality and number of participants. Bookings can not be made for the same day. Please read our TnC’s.
When giving as a gift, your recipient can choose a date at their convenience during a booking process. Otherwise, you can choose one after checkout and voucher redemption.
When giving as a gift, your recipient can choose a date at their convenience during a booking process. Otherwise, you can choose one after checkout and voucher redemption.
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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.
Return details
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Statue of Liberty View PointTravelers 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.
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The Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann SetonTravelers will see a Catholic shrine to a New York saint while hearing about the canonization of saints and the Catholic way of death.
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Battery Park CityTravelers will visit a cenotaph and discover Titanic history relevant to the cenotaph.
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National Museum of the American IndianTravelers will hear more indigenous history and stories linked with funerary museum acquisitions.
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Charging BullTravelers will find out about New Amsterdam burial history by visiting the site of the first city cemetery.
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Trinity Church NYCTravelers will hear about epidemic history, burial prohibitions, and potters fields.
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St. Paul's ChapelTravelers will hear about the Irish representation at St. Paul's graveyard.
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St. Peter's ChurchTravelers will hear about Catholic history; the New York ban on Catholicism, and the first New York Catholic burial ground.
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City Hall ParkTravelers 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.
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Twilight Tour: Death in New York (Lower Manhattan)
New York City, New York, USA
Experience unavailable
How it works?
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!