HAUNTED MANHATTAN- THE FIVE POINTS is a 90-minute walking tour led by the “rakish libertine” publisher, the debonair W.M. Blackwood, who takes audiences through 13 allegedly haunted sites in downtown Manhattan- from the graveyard at St. Paul's Chapel (home of the infamous headless ghost of actor George Fredrick Cooke who searches for his head that he'd sold to science to pay a bar tab)- to the former site of P.T. Barnum's American Museum which mysteriously burned down twice with his curiosities and unique performers inside- to Tweed Courthouse, haunted by its rotund and corrupt namesake, Boss Tweed- to the still standing "Tombs" where many of Manhattan's most notorious criminals have been held, tried and executed. The Five Points were a 15 block neighborhood where locals, immigrants and newly-freed slaves openly mingled in the mid-19th century. The dangerous streets were ruled by gangs like The Bowery Boys, Dead Rabbits and Plug Uglies and became a favorite place to misbehave for artists from Edgar Alan Poe to Herman Melville to Stephen Foster.
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