The outdoor cemetery at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral is filled with 200-year-old gravestones. It’s part of a tour of the catacombs beneath the church.

Luckily for New Yorkers, a trip to see catacombs is quite a bit closer than expected. In the NOLITA neighborhood of Lower Manhattan sits the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral.

He was buried in the original St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, but his remains were exhumed and moved to a crypt under the altar of the uptown St. Patrick’s Cathedral. ... and into the catacombs.

The Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral on Mulberry Street is selling a six-person family vault in its catacombs to members of the public for $7 million.

Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Soho is now offering candlelit tours of the previously off-limits underground crypts where you can explore more than 200 years of city history. You can register ...

A view of the catacombs at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral on a Tommy’s New York Catacombs by Candlelight tour. One of the cathedral’s biggest early donors was Pierre Toussaint, who was a ...

Uncover the history of New York City’s only Catholic Catacombs at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral with Tommy’s New York on the ”Catacombs by Candlelight” tour. For more than ...

Burials at St. Patrick’s began in the late 1700s. The most recent addition to the catacombs was the 2014 interment of Msgr. Nicola Marinacci, who died in September 2014 at age 103.

Underneath the original St. Patrick's Cathedral, hundreds of New Yorkers have been laid to rest in the New York catacombs. Thomas Wilkinson, known best as Tommy, led the candlelit tour.

Wilkinson, 47, himself a lifelong Staten Islander and church parishioner, tells little-known stories of the Old Cathedral, which — well before the “new” St. Patrick’s Cathedral was built ...

In celebration of its 200th anniversary, the Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral is offering hourly tours of its brand-new, fully restored interior, with lo ...