Death in New York Walking Tour

Staten Island Ferry Terminal,New York NY 10004

18 February, 2022

Description

A walking tour based on the book Death in New York (The History Press) by licensed tour guide K. Krombie Based on the book Death in New York (The History Press) by K. Krombie, the author’s tour explores the history and current affairs of death in New York City, including the first cemeteries in Manhattan, forgotten potter’s fields, capital punishment, death in wartime, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, science and sanitation, religious burial, and the origins of modern embalming. This outdoor tour is approximately 3 hours long, beginning at Battery Park and ending at First Shearith Israel Graveyard. The starting point is just outside the doors of the Staten Island Ferry terminal, which can be reached via the 1, R, or W train to South Ferry/Whitehall Street Station. Please see https://www.purefindernewyork.com/ for more details. Available tours: Death in New York Based on the book Death in New York (The History Press) by K. Krombie, the author’s tour explores the history and current affairs of death in New York City, including the first cemeteries in Manhattan, forgotten potter’s fields, capital punishment, death in wartime, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, science and sanitation, religious burial, and the origins of modern embalming. This outdoor tour of Lower Manhattan is approximately 2.5 hours long. The Psychiatric History of New York The Psychiatric History of New York follows the journey of psychiatry from Central Europe to America, and the psychoanalytic explosion that occurred in New York City. This tour of the Upper East Side focuses on psychiatric history from the madhouses of the metropolis to breakthroughs in biological psychiatry; from hospitalization to deinstitutionalization; and from Freud’s psychoanalysis to the Sackler family’s beginnings in “valiumania.”