White Horse Tavern, where he drank a fatal 18 shots of scotch in 1953. Perhaps the most
famous New York ghost is that of Aaron Burr, who served as vice president under Thomas
Jefferson but is best known for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804. Burr’s ghost is
said to roam the streets of his old neighborhood (also the West Village). Burr’s spectral
activity is focused particularly on one restaurant, One if By Land, Two if By Sea, which is
located in a Barrow Street building that was once Burr’s carriage house.