Discover more than four centuries of life and death in Manhattan with a tour of Battery Park, the Financial District, Tribeca, the Civic Center, and Chinatown.

Main Features

• Find out about New York City’s indigenous Lenape burial sites

• Discover the quarrels of New Amsterdam over burial space and new arrivals

• Learn about the British prisons for American Patriots during the Revolutionary War

• Hear about Manhattan’s riots, epidemics, and crucial changes in legislation

• Peer at the islands of New York Harbor, forgotten burial grounds, a Manhattan jail, and a busy funeral industry street

Meeting point: Outside the doors of Manhattan’s Staten Island Ferry Terminal at 4 Whitehall Street (under the word “STATEN” in the “STATEN ISLAND FERRY” SIGN above the entrance).

Tour length: 2.5-hours