NOHO, Manhattan -- Sixty years ago, the Merchant's House Museum in NoHo was the first building in Manhattan to receive landmark status. But for far longer, the house has been a home to some of the city's most well-known ghosts, former residents who, the lore goes, never really moved out.

The building was inhabited by the Tredwell family from 1835 to 1933. The family patriarch, the merchant Seabury Tredwell, lived there with his wife and their seven children. The youngest child, Gertrude was born at the house and lived there her whole life before dying at 93. She has been said to haunt the building ever since.

"Her story really speaks to people because it's incredibly romantic," if you ask the founder and owner of Boroughs of the Dead Walking Tour s, Andrea Janes, who also co-authored

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