New Luxury Bus Tour Visits Manhattan’s Most Haunted Places

Sept. 26, 2011 - PRLog -- NEW YORK – September 25, 2011 – Just in time for Halloween, New York City Adventure Tours introduces a guided bus tour of the 25-most haunted places in Manhattan, including the Merchant’s House, “Manhattan’s Most Haunted House,” according to The New York Times.

Led by NYC licensed tour guide Andy Sydor, the comfortable 2-hour tour in a luxurious 14-passenger Mercedes Sprinter stops at the house where Edgar Allen Poe penned some of his most chilling tales, a pair of firehouses haunted by tragic love affairs, the Dakota Building of John Lennon, Boris Karloff, and Rosemary’s Baby fame, and McSorley’s Old Ale House, where Harry Houdini still makes occasional appearances, and much more!

The tour concludes with a private visit inside the Merchant’s House Museum, where paranormal activity has been well documented for more than 75-years. Each guest will be provided with ghost hunting equipment, an EMF detector and temperature gauge. Photography (without flash) and digital video is welcome.

One-on-one media tours available on request.  Feature story inquiries welcome.  Interviews and high-resolution color photography available upon request.  

Tour Details
Date      Every Wednesday
Time      1 to 4 p.m. (2 hour bus tour, 1 hour museum tour)
Location   Departs from Bryant Park on 6th Avenue, between 40th & 42nd Streets
Cost       $69.95 (Buy tickets at http://nycadventuretours.com/calendar)

About NYC Adventure Tours
Ike Ilkiw, NYC Adventure Tours founder, was born on the Lower East Side of New York City and grew up in Brooklyn. Ike is a licensed New York State Private Investigator, and has worked with every level of law enforcement, from the New York City to the Federal level, including FBI, and The DEA. It is from his experiences of growing up in New York City and being a NYC Police Detective that he decided to start the NYC Adventure Tours.

His wildly successful Manhattan Murder and Mystery Bus Tour, which visits the 25 most notorious crime scene locations throughout New York's history, prompted Ike  to launch this new tour of Manhattan’s Most Haunted Places.  
On the web: www.NYCAdventureTours.com   

About the Merchant’s House Museum
Celebrating 75th Year as a Museum (1936-2011)
The Merchant's House Museum is New York City's only family home preserved intact ,  inside and out,  from the mid-19th-century.  Home to a prosperous merchant-class family and their staff of four Irish servants for almost 100-years, it is complete with the family's original furnishings and personal possessions, offering a rare and intimate glimpse of domestic life from 1835-1865.
      “Not so much a museum as a raw slice of history. -- AVENUE Magazine
On the web: www.merchantshouse.org