New York Trip Overview
In addition to visiting lesser viewed sites, this tour also explores more frequented sites from a unique perspective in line with the theme, which is based on the upcoming book, “Death in New York” (History Press). The author of said book will be your guide. This tour, focused on historical fact and born out of extensive research, explores its topics with uncommon depth and substantial realism.
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: New York, United States
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting New York, New York, United States
In addition to visiting lesser viewed sites, this tour also explores more frequented sites from a unique perspective in line with the theme, which is based on the upcoming book, “Death in New York” (History Press). The author of said book will be your guide. This tour, focused on historical fact and born out of extensive research, explores its topics with uncommon depth and substantial realism.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Lower Manhattan, New York City, NY
Starting in Battery Park and ending in Washington Square Park, this tour covers a variety of stops including Trinity Church, the 9/11 Memorial, City Hall, the Surrogate’s Courthouse, African Burial Ground National Monument, and First Shearith Israel Graveyard, among several others. Some of the topics discussed in the tour are the first cemeteries in Manhattan, hidden cemeteries, potter’s fields, capital punishment, death in wartime and incarceration, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, science and sanitation, religious burial, immigration, and the origins of modern embalming.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Financial District, Financial District, New York City, New York
1.) Entrance of Staten Island Ferry Terminal: Meeting place to start tour
2.) Statue of Liberty Viewing Point in Battery Park for tour context and introduction
3.) 7 State Street: Shrine of Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton
4.) Wireless Operator;s Memorial in Battery Park
5.) National Museum of the American Indian at 1 Bowling Green
6.) Corner of Broadway and Morris Street, site of the old city cemetery as seen on the Castello Plan of 1660
7.) Trinity Church at 75 Broadway
8.) St. Paul’s Chapel at 209 Broadway
9.) 9/11 Memorial
10.) St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church at 22 Barclay Street
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Civic Center, Civic Center, New York City, New York
11.) City Hall Park
12.) Surrogate’s Courthouse at 31 Chambers Street
13.) Elk Street, named for the fraternal society
14.) African Burial Ground National Monument
15.) Rhinelander Sugar House Prison WIndow (behind the David Dinkins Manhattan Municipal Building at 1 Center Street)
16.) 150 Park Row, Metropolitan Correctional Center
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Chinatown, Canal Street to Bayard Street, New York City, NY 10013
17.) Wah Wing Sang Funeral Corporation at 26 Mulberry Street
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Two Bridges, Two Bridges, New York City, New York
18.) First Shearith Israel Graveyard at 55-57 S. James Place
Cafe Palermo (148 Mulberry Street) for Break
19.) The Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral at 160-364 Mulberry Street
20.) Sarah D. Roosevelt Park
21.) Anthology Film Archives, formerly the New Essex Market Courthouse at 32 2nd Avenue
22.) New York City Marble Cemetery at 52-74 East 2nd Street
Duration: 30 minutes
