BOROUGHS OF THE DEAD

Macabre NYC History Tours

“Absolutely phenomenal. This is no stale, rehearsed walk.”

ABOUT US

Boroughs of the Dead is a boutique tour company offering a rotating selection of specialized walking tours of New York City. Our tours explore dark and hidden history, medical and women’s history, the spectral, the occult, and other urban hauntings. All of our tours are meticulously written and researched one-of-a-kind creations led by expert guides, authors, and artists. We are a locally-owned, independently operated, woman-run business. Learn more…

FALL TOURS ARE HERE!

Our spooky season tour schedule is here! We’re running all our classic Manhattan ghost tours, as well as ghost and dark history tours in Brooklyn, Queens, and Roosevelt Island. Plus we’re bringing back fan favorite “Edgar Allan Poe in Greenwich Village.

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WE HAVE BEEN FEATURED IN

WFUV
NPR
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New York Times
Rue Morgue
Yahoo! Travel
AM New York
Conde Nast Traveler
The Brooklyn Paper
Brooklyn Independent Media
Mashable
XO JANE

These tours “capture one’s imagination and breathe vivid color into histories long forgotten by most.”

Featured Tours

HAUNTING HISTORIES & LEGENDS OF ASTORIA

Outer-borough spookiness! Unsettling tales of this neighborhood’s grim and ghostly past…

HAUNTED BROOKLYN HEIGHTS

A spirited stroll through the charming neighborhood whose graceful facades belie a wealth of terrors!

Brooklyn’s ghost tour since 2014

EDGAR ALLAN POE IN GREENWICH VILLAGE

A literary & biographical walking tour interweaving the life and work of Edgar Poe with the historic backdrop of Greenwich Village

ISLAND OF LOST SOULS: A HISTORY OF MADNESS AND MEDICINE ON ROOSEVELT ISLAND

The intersections between the history of these institutional spaces and the urban folklore that surrounds them

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