Hart Island

The following is a guest post by Boroughs of the Dead tour guide Marie Carter. This post is a travelogue; Boroughs of the Dead does not currently lead tours to Hart Island. If you are looking for information about how to get to Hart Island, please visit the NYC...

Green-Wood Cemetery: Murder & Mayhem, Scandal & Spiritualism

Ramble among the graves in the city’s oldest rural cemetery with “Green-Wood Cemetery: Murder & Mayhem, Scandal and Spiritualism” Among the nearly 600,000 graves in Green-Wood Cemetery one can find an almost unfathomable number of human...

NYC Cemetery Project

Periodically, we like to run profiles to showcase the hard work of New Yorkers who are dedicated to the history and archaeology of this city. Mary French runs the NYC Cemetery Project, an incredible blog that actually has real writing, and information, and images...

The Fox Sisters, Spiritualism, and the Burned-Over District

This post is published in conjunction with our upcoming tours, Murder & Mayhem, Scandal and Spiritualism tour of Green-Wood Cemetery and Magic and Mysticism of Central Park , which explore the spiritualism and mysticism of 19th century New York. Tickets for these...

The Brooklyn Enigma

My discovery of the Brooklyn Enigma was a mistake. On one of my recent research trips to Green-Wood Cemetery, I was scouting graves and stories for my upcoming tour, Murder and Mayhem, Scandal and Spiritualism. I was using one of the cemetery-issued tourist maps, the...

Titanic Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery

There are several Titanic-related grave sites at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. (There are lots at Woodlawn, too.) One of the saddest is the grave of little Douglas Spedden, best known as the little boy in this photo: When Douglas saw the icebergs after...