Ghost Tours and Haunted Places of NYC

Our New York Ghost tours capture the spiritual side of the Big Apple through stories of lost opportunities, political intrigue, disease and murder.  With almost every step one takes through the West Village or on the Brooklyn Bridge, one encounters the ghosts and spirits of New York City's past.  Every corner has it's stories, every building has its haunted spirits.  We offer two main ghost tours, one in Greenwich Village and the other on the Brooklyn Bridge. Scroll done for information on both tours.

Dates for both ghost tours are listed below, but do check out our full tour schedule for the up to date offerings.  We also offer a seasonal tour titled the Dark Side of the High Line.

Greenwich Village Ghost Tour 

East Village Ghost Tour

Ghosts on Broadway Tour

Greenwich Village Ghost Tour

Join Free Tours by Foot as we visit historic haunts, communicate with the dead, and walk the streets with the tortured spirits of the past. This tour is not for the faint of heart, taking those who seek a good thrill through the haunted streets of Greenwich Village and Chelsea. Stand above the hidden tomb of 20,000 yellow fever victims, catch a glimpse of a turn of the century revolution set on endless loop, hear tales of modern tragedy and murder, and trace the steps of our famous forefathers who tend to linger past their expiration date.

Highlights of this tour include stops and tales surrounding the following:

• Washington Square Park
• Haunted NYU
• Mark Twain’s “House of Horror”
• Residence of Mayor Jimmy Walker
• Chumley’s
• Aaron Burr's Haunted Carriage House
• And much more!

Who knows, maybe your own encounter with the other side on this tour will become one of our stories…

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East Village Ghost Tour

The ghosts of Greenwich Village are too numerous and interesting to meet in just one evening!  Due to popular demand, we are offering a new tour, "Ghosts of the East Village," as a companion tour to one of our biggest crowd-pleasers Ghosts of the West Village.

Our tour begins talking about the Arch at Washington Square Park, the most haunted place in New York City, and wraps at St. Mark's in the Bowery at Second Avenue and 10th Street.

Haunted sites we visit include:

• West 3rd St. firehouse, haunted by the firefighter who committed suicide in the 1930s and now home to a famous newscaster.
• Poe House, New York University's  "re-interpretation" of the house where Poe lived in 1844.
• The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory at the corner of Green Street and Washington Place. Now known as the Brown Building and part of the NYU campus, this historic building was the site of the infamous 1911 fire that killed 145 workers, most of them young immigrant women whose spirits still haunt the building.
• Merchant House Museum, a living museum haunted by the spirits of Gertrude Tredwell and her very dysfunctional family. Gertrude may have been the inspiration for Catherine Sloper in Henry James'  "The Heiress."
• McSorley's Old Alehouse, which claims to be the oldest operating bar in NYC (circa 1854). Mc Sorley's patrons have included Abraham Lincoln, John Lennon, Teddy Roosevelt and Boss Tweed.   One of its favorite customers -- magician Harry Houdini, who died on Halloween 1926 -- still haunts the bar accompanied by the famous McSorley cats, who were depicted in John Sloan's paintings.
• St. Mark's in the Bowery,  haunted by the spirit of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch lieutenant governor of New Amsterdam, who has roamed his farmland property since his death in 1672.

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Ghosts on Broadway

For some performers, the show must go on… even after death! The Ghosts on Broadway Tour, led by a veteran New York City talent agent, will introduce you to these notorious theater legends who appear after the lights go dim. You’ll hear about the Broadway impresario who haunts the theater that bears his name. His apparition shows up on opening nights to congratulate the cast or “pinch” the leading ladies’ bottom!   Jazz age parties are heard almost nightly from his long abandoned apartment over his theater. There’s also the beautiful,flirtatious chorus girl who died tragically young (was it murder or suicide?). She appears only in the early morning -- and only to men.

Most Broadway tours focus on current shows and performers. Our tour looks at some of the “longest-running” performances on the Great White Way!   Come join us!

Among the stories and sites included on this tour:

• The Palace, a 1913 vaudeville theater that is rumored to be haunted by over 100 ghosts, including Judy Garland.
• The New Amsterdam Theater, once home to the “Ziegfield Follies,” where the cast & crew routinely say good-night to the ghost of the bewitching chorus girl.
• The Belasco Theater,  in which references to the theater's famous ghost are ad-libbed in it’s current production.
• The Lyceum, the 1903 oldest-operating theater where an acclaimed choreographer & Tony Award winning director recently made his presence known to folks in the theater's latest production.
• Learn the curious superstitions by which theater folks live and die!

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