{"id":177611,"date":"2026-03-27T20:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177611\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T20:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:05:14","slug":"boroughs-of-the-dead-launches-tour-exploring-stories-of-greenwich-villages-female-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177611\/","title":{"rendered":"Boroughs of the Dead launches tour exploring stories of Greenwich Village\u2019s female ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Andrea Janes gives ghost tours as a part of Boroughs of the Dead.<\/p>\n

Photo: Andrea Janes\/Boroughs of the Dead<\/p>\n

This weekend, Boroughs of the Dead will be hosting a walking tour telling the stories of female ghosts in Greenwich Village.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Led by author and de facto ghost historian Andrea Janes, the 90-minute tour tells stories of historical women who are believed to haunt the area like Gertrude Tredwell, who is said to haunt the Merchant\u2019s House Museum in NoHo, or Theodosia Burr, the daughter of founding father Aaron Burr.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Janes has been giving ghost tours since 2011, but feels particularly connected to women\u2019s ghost stories. Similarly, she finds that her audience is primarily women \u2014 which she attributes to the idea that \u201cwe get murdered a lot.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe live in a state of constant vulnerability. So by exploring those parts of life that are scary and that are dark, it\u2019s cathartic,\u201d Janes said. \u201cIt helps us to metabolize all of the grief and the tragedy and the fear and the violence we live with all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Andrea<\/a>Andrea Janes gives ghost tours as a part of Boroughs of the Dead.Photo: Andrea Janes\/Boroughs of the Dead<\/p>\n

Nearly 70% of Janes\u2019 business is done in October (perhaps the spookiest month), but she said she looks to find ways to create tours surrounding other holidays. March is Women\u2019s History Month, so people are generally more interested in the women-centered ghost tours, Janes said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Boroughs of the Dead hosts tours all around New York City, including in Roosevelt Island about the Titanic, but this one is specifically located in Greenwich Village. Janes said it just worked out that way, given that there was a concentration of female ghost stories in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For example, stories can be told about 20th century author Jan Bryant Bartell, who lived at 14 W. 10th Street \u2014 a mansion nicknamed the \u201cHouse of Death.\u201d Another example includes a historical aspect of Washington Square Park \u2014 where then-slave Rose Butler is believed to have been the only public execution on the property after being convicted of arson.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Andrea<\/a>Andrea Janes gives ghost tours as a part of Boroughs of the Dead.<\/p>\n

Janes believes what sets her tours apart is a focus on historical accuracy and nuance. She\u2019s written two books on ghost stories, including one focused on American female ghosts. Her own research begins with a secondary source and works backwards to find primary sources, like property deeds to prove a certain individual actually lived at a certain place.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re very interesting because they\u2019re half history, half folklore,\u201d Janes said. \u201cYou have this subjective account that you\u2019re going to take on faith.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Janes said that she personally found a lot of ghost tours exploitative, especially of female ghost stories \u2014 such as referring to women who were likely abused as \u201cmistresses.\u201d She hopes her tour leaves guests with a sense of empowerment, and knowledge of individual stories, so the women won\u2019t be forgotten.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were real people,\u201d Janes said. \u201cThey deserve to be remembered respectfully, and not a sort of pawn in somebody\u2019s money making scheme to sell tourists a fun experience. It\u2019s not a haunted house.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those who are interested in Janes\u2019 tours can check out bookings here<\/a>. The Ghostly Women of Greenwich Village tour is only offered once this month on March 28, but might return in September, depending on demand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrea Janes gives ghost tours as a part of Boroughs of the Dead. Photo: Andrea Janes\/Boroughs of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5083,71856,71857,6644,2519,9,11,10,49,51,50,613],"class_list":["post-177611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-amny-weekender","tag-andrea-janes","tag-boroughs-of-the-dead","tag-ghost-tours","tag-greenwich-village","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-pm-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}