Purefinder New York Tours

This summer: 3 tours, endless secrets. The full lineup returns in September. More tours coming in 2025!


Puck Magazine: Where is the difference? / Dalrymple, from the late 1800s.

The Outlaws Who Built NYC

This summer: Scandal. Subterfuge. Street-level rebellion.

The real architects of New York City weren’t saints. They were schemers.

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Central Park scrime scene

Central Park: Scandal & Vice

This summer: Discover the secrets hiding in plain sight inside New York City’s most iconic park.

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President Lincoln's funeral along Broadway, NY, in April, 1865

Twilight Tour: Death in New York

This summer: Explore stories of burial grounds, executions, and forgotten dead as the city transitions from day to night.

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Little girl posing for the camera in front of Joseph Garlick, undertaker, Lower East Side, NYC, November 17, 1914

Death in New York: Extended Daylight tour

Immerse yourself in New York’s rich history of death, burial, epidemics, and execution on this in-depth 2.75-hour tour.

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Gregory Peck and Ingrif Bergman in Spellbound (1945), directed by Alfred Hitchcock

The Psychiatric History of New York

Take an analytical stroll through the evolution of psychiatry on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

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Young J. Robert Oppenheimer, circa 1920s

Oppenheimer in New York

Walk through the mind of a man—J. Robert Oppenheimer—the making of an era, and the streets that shaped them both.

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Tug boat heading through the Hell Gate portion of NYC's East River beneath the Hell Gate Bridge.

Hell Gate

Explore the treacherous waters of Hell Gate, a notorious one-mile stretch of the East River—between Manhattan and Astoria, Queens—that has claimed countless ships with its deadly currents, jagged reefs, and legendary whirlpools.

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