7 pm EST (New York time)
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Over the course of the pandemic, New York-based writer K. Krombie spent a strange year exploring the history and industry of death and dying in the Empire City. Covering hundreds of miles on foot, bushwhacking through overgrown cemeteries, lurking around funeral homes and morgues, taking a deserted ferry to NYC’s Potter’s Field - Hart Island, K. Krombie found mysteries, wildlife, and spooky, abandoned architectural wonders in every borough.

From experiments in embalming to capital punishment to the vagaries of the mortuary business, this talk will present her findings, exploring the fascinating history of death in New York and a virtual tour of the cemeteries, tombs, and graveyards of the five boroughs.

K. Krombie is a New York-based writer, theatre critic, and incidental performer. She writes for media outlets in the United States and the UK, including picturethispost.com, Popdust, StageBuddy.com, broadwaystars.com, Here Comes Everyone Magazine, The White Rabbit Podcast, and Hive Media. A longtime obsessive of all things NYC, it’s only right that she lives here now. There’s little she doesn’t know about death, having escaped it several times over the course of her peregrinations. Death in New York: History and Culture of Burials, Undertakers and Executions (Arcadia Publishing) published in October, 2021.