LOdd GothamGothamly pick
Macabre →Houdini’s Grave
Magicians still gather to break a wand over the escape artist who couldn’t escape this one.
Picks like this, every Friday
Seven things worth leaving the apartment for, hand-checked. One short email, free, one tap to leave.
More in Macabre
- Green-Wood Cemetery500 25th St · 478 acres of monuments, wild parrots & Brooklyn’s best view — Bernstein & Basquiat rest here
- Merchant’s House Museum29 E 4th St · An 1832 family home preserved intact, furniture and all · Manhattan’s most complete time capsule
- Doyers St — The Bloody AngleOnce America’s deadliest crooked street; the crook now hides dim sum and a speakeasy.
- Smallpox Hospital RuinsA landmarked Gothic ruin at the island’s tip — view it from Four Freedoms Park.
- Hart IslandThe city’s potter’s field — a million burials, closed to the public for 150 years. Now NYC Parks runs free walking tours. Book ahead; bring silence.
- Catacombs by CandlelightManhattan’s only working catacombs, toured by candle lantern beneath the 1815 basilica — Mafia funerals & Godfather lore included.