Tours currently on hiatus Returning summer 2025 with a new book and updated tours! January 3, 2025 Boroughs of the Dead will be on hiatus through Summer 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 now! (See below for more about the […]
Ghosts of Christmas Past: A Spooky Holiday Walking Tour New York City's original holiday ghost tour is back! November 20, 2024 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 […]
City of Mysteries: Two New True Crime Tours From Victorian Murder in Manhattan to Scandal and Blood in Brooklyn September 20, 2024 This November, 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 […]
Boroughs of the Dead Book Club Edgar Allan Poe, "A Mystery of Mysteries," and Mark Dawidziak Q&A September 17, 2024 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 […]
Merchant’s House Museum Collaboration A Special Edition of Ghostly Women of Greenwich Village August 20, 2024 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 […]
Fall Tours Are Here for 2024! Book by Labor Day to Save with Promo Code EARLYBIRD July 31, 2024 Book now and save $5 off any regular ghost tour with promo code EARLYBIRD when you book by Labor Day! Did you know? 2024 marks the 400th anniversary of New Amsterdam / New York City (founded in 1624) and Boroughs of the Dead is marking the occasion with an epic series of walking tours designed to reflect […]
Spooky Summer Sale Take 15% off all regular ghost tours June 11, 2024 This summer, take 15% off regular Boroughs of the Dead ghost tours with our Spooky Summer Sale! Enjoy any of our Manhattan and Brooklyn ghost tours for only $30 through August 18th. No discount code needed! Tours include Forgotten Dark Histories of Lower Manhattan, The Ultimate Greenwich Village Ghost Tour, West Village Ghosts, and Haunted […]
Frights and Phantoms of Flushing July 27, 2019 Boroughs of the Dead is excited to announce our return to Queens (the original “Borough of the Dead”) with our brand new tour: Frights and Phantoms of Flushing! Venture into the neighborhood of Flushing, Queens, home to some of the oldest, best-preserved, and most significant buildings in the United States. This tour will examine the […]
Ghosts of Governors Island October 2, 2018 Visit the secret sixth borough of New York City: Governors Island! Location of military executions (by hangman AND firing squad!), a mass grave, two abandoned cemeteries, and history galore. This is the only tour that shows you where the bodies are buried (they’re still there). You will learn the full history of the island, from […]