Date: Saturday June 7th, 2014
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
*** Must pre-order tickets here
Meeting Point: City Hall Park, by the fountain (precise end point TBD)
Presented by Morbid Anatomy
19th century New York City was a town of varied amusements, from P.T. Barnum’s American Museum to popular anatomical museums to waterfront dives offering such attractions as rat fighting. This 90-minute walking tour will introduce you to a few of these long-vanished diversions, from the dime museums of lower Broadway to the notorious dance halls of the old Five Points to the low-down dives of the Bowery.
Highlights/Selected Stops:
- Barnum’s American Museum
- The “New” Anatomical Museum
- Almack’s Dance Hall
- Kit Burns’ Rat Pit
- McGurk’s Suicide Hall
- Henry J. Jordan’s New York Museum of Anatomy
- And more!
Andrea Janes is a writer and tour guide who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her interest in urban history and terrifying tales led to her career of conducting walking tours of macabre locations in New York City. She is also the author of BOROUGHS OF THE DEAD: New York City Ghost Stories. The book is a work of fiction, but in the course of her research, she discovered the city was a wealth of ghostly, gory stories, and decided she wanted to share them with the world. Find out more at www.boroughsofthedead.com.