St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery and Peter Stuyvesant lore

St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery contains the burial vault of Peter Stuyvesant, the 17th-century Dutch director-general of New Netherland, a documented historical feature of the site. Because of that historic association and the church's long history, stories and ghostly anecdotes claiming apparitions or unexplained phenomena connected to Stuyvesant have circulated among visitors and local guides. Those reports are part of local urban-legend lore and are anecdotal rather than scientifically verified.