Ghosts of Greenwich Village: 8 haunted locations in one hour

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Duration1h

GroupUp to 20

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What stories are buried under Washington Square Park?

You walk eight haunted locations through Greenwich Village in an hour with a professional guide, starting and ending at Washington Square Park. The tour runs year-round at 8pm (spring/summer) or 7pm (fall/winter), keeps groups small, and includes all fees. You leave knowing the darker history of neighborhoods you thought you already understood.

Step-by-step itinerary

Evening haunted walking tour in Greenwich Village

Meet at Washington Square Park Arch
Listen to guides about burial sites
Walk through haunted Greenwich Village
Visit 8 haunted locations
Admire New York after dark
End tour at Washington Square Park

The Experience

The tour starts at 8pm (April through October; 7pm the rest of the year) at Washington Square Park, right at the Arch, and you're already standing where the guide begins pointing out the history beneath your feet. Greenwich Village ghost tour groups stay under 20 people, so there's room to actually hear what's being said and ask questions without shouting over a crowd. The walk covers just a mile, which sounds short until you realize you're stopping at eight specific locations — Mark Twain's House of Death, the Emma Lazarus House, the Hangman's Elm — each one with its own layer of New York that most people walk past without knowing.

What makes this different from reading a book about the city is the guide. They're not reciting facts; they're walking you through a neighborhood where people actually lived, died, and according to the stories, never quite left. You'll see the streets at night, the way the old buildings look when they're lit from below, the corners where things happened centuries ago. The whole thing takes an hour, and then you end back at Washington Square Park, so you're not wandering around trying to find your way out in the dark.

The tour includes a professional guide and all taxes and fees — nothing gets added at the end. It's wheelchair accessible, and the route is flat enough that people with moderate fitness can handle it without struggling. If you've spent time in New York and thought you knew the city, this changes that. You'll walk streets you've probably been on before and realize there's a whole other version of them running underneath the one you see during the day.

What’s included

Your tour includes a professional guide leading you through eight haunted locations in Greenwich Village, all taxes and fees built into the price, and the flexibility to ask questions as you walk. The route is one mile, flat, and wheelchair accessible, ending back where you started at Washington Square Park.

Good to know

Moderate physical levelWheelchair accessibleAccessible transportStroller friendlyPets welcomePublic transport nearbyNot for heart conditionsNot for back problems

Operated by New York Ghosts

Is this one for you?This works well if you know New York but want to see it from an angle you haven't explored, or if you're visiting and want a focused, guided way into the city's older layers without arranging transport or timing yourself — the fixed hour and small group size mean you get the story without the logistics.