Saturday, September 29, 2012

Ghost Tours for October

As I'm sure many of my readers know, I conduct ghost tours of haunted locations in New York City. If you live in the city and would like to take one of my tours this Halloween season, please visit Ghosts of New York to register.


Ghosts of New York has a variety of tours with various guides. Here are the tours I will be leading:

Saturday October 13, Friday October 19, Saturday October 20, Friday October 26, Saturday October 27

Edgar Allan Poe and His Ghostly Neighbors of Greenwich Village

Start Time 9:00pm
Go in search of the spirits of Eleanor Roosevelt and her pet dog Fala, Aaron Burr, the ghosts of the New York University Library and of Washington Square Arch, Washington Square Park — ghost central, the most haunted area in America — and, of course, several Edgar Allan Poe sites.
Tours are 90 minutes in duration and less than a mile in length.
Everything is handicap accessible.
Meeting Point: This tour departs across the street from Fire Patrol Station No. 2, 85 West Third Street, one block south of Washington Square Park between Thompson and Sullivan Streets, in Manhattan.
Subway trains A B C D E F M stop at the West 4th Street Station. Exit from Third Street exit and go eastward on Third Street.
Fee: $20 by credit card on line; $25 in person.
If you plan to pay cash, please call (718) 591-4741 to reserve your place.
Meeting Place:
85 West Third Street
New York, NY
Map and Directions

 

 Sunday October 21, Sunday October 28

Edgar Allan Poe’s Gaslight Greenwich Village

Start Time 2:00pm
“Poe belongs to New York. His connections to the city span the length of his writing career. He was a literatus, not a loner, and New York has long been the home of the literati. Poe belonged in the publishing capital of America.”
- Susan Amper, Poe, Toast of Gotham

This 90-minute literary and historical walking tour steps into the life of Edgar Allan Poe’s Greenwich Village of the 1840s. Visit the site of three of his former homes, trace a path into the past to gaslight-era Washington Square Park, learn of his contemporary rivals and admirers, and see where he wrote some of his most famous works. You will discover the places that inspired Poe, find out where he read “The Raven” for the first time in public, and even see where he was once treated for a head cold! Interweaving some of his most famous tales with Greenwich Village’s macabre secret histories, this tour is guaranteed to delight fans of Poe’s literary grotesques.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a literary/historical tour, not a ghost tour.

Meeting Point: This tour departs across the street from Fire Patrol Station No. 2, 85 West Third Street, one block south of Washington Square Park between Thompson and Sullivan Streets, in Manhattan.
Subway trains A B C D E F M stop at the West 4th Street Station. Exit from Third Street exit and go eastward on Third Street.
Fee: $20 by credit card on line; $25 in person.
Meeting Place:
Opposite Fire Patrol Station No. 2
85 West Third Street
New York, NY
Map and Directions
Register

Hope to see you all this Halloween!

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