Category: News

We’re teaming up with The Mysterious Bookshop! Join Boroughs of the Dead on April 25 as we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with a very special edition of “Gotham by Gaslight: A Victorian True Crime Tour.” Step into the shadows of 19th century Gotham, then follow us into the Mysterious Bookshop afterward to browse a curated […]

Friends, it is holiday season and if you’re like me that can only mean one thing: you’re behind. You’re behind on everything. Your year-end To Do List. Holiday Shopping. Sending cards. Fixing yourself up for those glam holiday parties. All the things. But fear not …. because Boroughs of the Dead is here to help […]

We’re thrilled to announce our latest ghost tour, The Uncanny Upper West Side. The tour debuts this October, and tickets are on sale now! Join us for strange tales of spirits, psychics, and seances on this tour of the Uncanny Upper West Side. Once the hinterlands of Manhattan, the Upper West Side has since become […]

Tickets are on sale now for our ghost tours and dark history tours for Halloween 2025! From a haunted walking tour of Lower Manhattan, to our brand new ghost tour of the Upper West Side, we’re thrilled to be back for another Spooky Season in the city. For those who are new here, our tours […]

Boroughs of the Dead will be on hiatus through Labor Day and tours will resume in September, 2025. We’ll return with a brand-new book and some new-and-improved tours! We’re spending this time putting the finishing touches on America’s Most Gothic, which will release just in time for Spooky Season 2025, and is available for pre-order […]

It’s time to celebrate… the spooky way! We’re bringing back our annual Ghosts of Christmas Past tour this season. This is New York City’s original (since 2013!) and only Christmas Ghost Tour! More About the Tour Yuletide is the time when ghosts glide through old houses, a time for winter tales told by the fire. So we’re delving […]

Join Boroughs of the Dead for a stroll into the dark, twisted criminal history of our city as we present two new true crime tours in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Gotham by Gaslight: A Victorian True Crime Tour takes us to the 19th century, a bloody and violent era when the city seethed with murder, scandal […]

Have you ever wondered how Edgar Allan Poe really died? What actually happened on that mysterious night in October, 1849? Was Poe a victim of “cooping”? Did he have an unknown disease? Or was it… something else? This October, get ready to quiz author Mark Dawidziak on the mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe at our next book talk on October 8th at […]

During the month of September, Boroughs of the Dead is offering two tours in collaboration with the Merchant’s House Museum. In honor of Gertrude Tredwell’s birthday (September 17, 1840) you can visit the historic home before your Ghostly Women of Greenwich Village tour: just select the “Museum Tour” add-on at checkout to take a one-hour […]