Truman Capote’s Haunting Perspective of Brooklyn

The following is a guest post by Boroughs of the Dead tour guide Marie Carter. Marie will be leading our next Haunted Brooklyn Heights tour on August 26th. Tickets are available here. “I live in Brooklyn. By choice.” This is the first line of Truman Capote’s legendary...

The Poisonous Prohibition in Brooklyn Heights

The following is a guest post from our tour guide Marie Carter, who will be conducting a lecture on “The Poisonous Prohibition” at QED in Astoria on Sunday, June 25, 2017, and leading our “Haunted Brooklyn Heights” tour — which will...

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...

March is Butchery Month!

Take both tours and get $10 off your second ticket! William “Bill the Butcher” Poole died on March 8th, 1855. This Saturday March 8th, learn more about this notorious gangster and visit his stomping grounds of the Bowery and the old Five Points on our tour of Murder,...

We’re Scandalous!

According to New York.com, Boroughs of the Dead is one of New York City’s most shocking tours! “If you’re looking for the dark side of New York, and we mean really dark, this is the tour for you.” Read more here to “get the skinny on the city...

Murder, Mystery and Mayhem

Lately I’ve been reading some great history books dealing with the dark and criminal side of the city’s past and true crime in New York City. One is an old classic, the other just came out last month. I thought I’d share these with you and at the...