Trace more than four centuries of life and death in NYC on a tour of Battery Park, the Financial District, Tribeca, the Civic Center, and Chinatown (led by Death in New York author K. Krombie).
Main Features: Find out about New York City’s indigenous Lenape burial sites. Discover the quarrels of New Amsterdam over burial space and new arrivals. Learn about the British prisons for American Patriots during the Revolutionary War. Hear about Manhattan’s riots, epidemics, and crucial changes in legislation. Peer at the islands of New York Harbor, forgotten burial grounds, a Manhattan jail, and a busy funeral industry street.