NYC walking tours
GVSHP/LESHP Walking Tour: Gangster City

A Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
walking tour with the Lower East Side History Project

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Sunday, September 27
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Meeting place given upon reservation.
Free; reservations required.
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lucianoTrace the steps of such mob heavyweights as Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Bugsy Siegel who grew up and earned their criminal stripes on the streets of the Lower East Side. Visit the headquarters, residencies, social clubs, and shootout locations of the Jewish and Italian Mobsters who, along with the help of the Tammany Hall political machine, ruled New York City's vice, labor and garment industries from this neighborhood 100 years ago.

The tour is led by Eric Ferrara, a fourth generation/native New Yorker,  executive director of the Lower East Side History Project, and author of the  book A Guide to Gangsters, Murderers and Weirdos of New York City's Lower East Side (History Press).


MORE INFO/RSVP: http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/events/upcoming.htm


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