Two men looked around, as tourists do, but repeatedly checked their watches against the large flashing sign on the New York Times building. Theodore Reinsen, businessman, thought they must be on leave. The men stopped beside him, glanced quickly at their watches, and then nodded and grinned at him. The taller of the two asked…
Eliza Jumel is a ghost in her own right at the Morris-Jumel Mansion at 65 Jumel Terrace in Washington Heights. Built in 1765 as a summer home for British colonel Roger Morris and his wife, the Morris-Jumel Mansion is the oldest remaining house in Manhattan. It served as George Washington’s headquarters in September and October…
Ghosts of New York Blog 12 The Ghost Ship of the Hudson River © 2018 by Dr. Philip Ernest Schoenberg, Ghost with a Blog #ghost 
It was noised about New Amsterdam, in the days of Governor Peter Stuyvesant of…
The Common was laid out by the Dutch government in colonial New Amsterdam as pasture land, located adjacent to the freshwater Collect Pond. Later the Commons became as site for the African burial ground, parading troops, public gatherings, and celebrations and executions. The Leni Lenape, American Indians, once dwelled here at the village of Werpoes. …
Ghosts like to haunt in all sorts of places Every city has urban legends, and our city is no different. Even ghosts like to haunt in warm places such as Grand Central when winter cold strikes. Urban stories grow over time, whispered in hushed tones in the corridors of power, retold to generations of passengers…
Ghosts of New York Blog 9 Did Edgar Allan Poe Believe in Ghosts? © 2017 by Dr. Philip Ernest Schoenberg, Ghost with a Blog #ghost 
“Did Poe himself believe in ghosts? I don’t really know, but somehow I…
When Emma Lazarus died at the early age of thirty-eight her spirit lingers at the place of her last residence, 14 West 10th Street. In 2011, one of the patrons on our walking tour a photo of what appeared to be a woman in one of the windows of her former residence. Why don’t you…
“Did Poe himself believe in ghosts? I don’t really know, but somehow I doubt it. He never showed any particular interest in spiritualism, which became extremely popularly during his lifetime. He certainly never wrote about it, though lots of other writers did.” Daniel Cohen, Ghost of Elvis and Other Celebrity Sprits (New York: Pocket Books),…
When I attended New York University as a graduate student in history in the early 1970s, I heard a rumor about a ghost, a scholarly ghost no less, at the main library of New York University. The library stuck as a kind of afterthought in the basement of what is now the main undergraduate building…
Edgar Allan Poe’s last home in New York was at 17 West 10th Street. In May 1848, at the house, Dr. Shew allowed the poet to live in one of his rooms and to court his widowed sister, Mrs. Marie Louise Shew. She had nursed Poe’s dying wife in the Bronx until she had died…
