Quirky NYC walking tour covers history of death, executions and body-snatching in the Big Apple

"It's 400-plus years of municipal management and mismanagement of death in New York," said Purefinder tour guide and journalist K. Krombie, who founded the Death in New York walking tour in 2022. "It's what the city doesn't want you to see."

The pandemic happened, and to get fresh air, I would walk around Randall's Island - where they had about 50 or 60 refrigerated trucks to store the dead. So that got me thinking about the history of sanitation and epidemics because I had nothing else to do during the pandemic, so I just started writing about it.

Since then, the historian has expanded her offerings to include a tour of the Psychiatric History of the Upper East Side, Oppenheimer in New York and The Outlaws Who Built Manhattan.

Read at New York Post