This popular and exciting tour explores the former social clubs, homes and haunts of some of the most influential 20th century mobsters, while uncovering the truth behind many Mafia legends.

Discuss the Italian immigrant experience and the social, political and economical conditions which allowed organized gangsterism to thrive in the slums of New York City by the turn of the century.


Discussed on tour:
-The seeds of Cosa Nostra in Sicily
-The roots of the Mafia in America
-Origins of the "Five Families"
-The mob's role during Prohibition
-Nationalization of organized crime
-The truth about Hollywood mob movies
-The criminal careers of Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, Giuseppe Masseria, Sal Maranzano, Vito Genovese, Joe Biondo, Carlo Gambino, Carmine Galante, "Crazy" Joey Gallo, Joe Colombo, Vincent Gigante, Aniello Dellacroce, Natale Evola, Giuseppe Morello, the Beck Brothers, and many more...

Visit on tour:
-Former homes, social clubs, speakeasies, businesses and hit locations

The tour is conducted by Eric Ferrara, founder of the Lower East Side History Project, published author and fourth-generation, native  New Yorker whose family immigrated to Little Italy in the 1880s. He is a consultant on several movie, tv, and media projects world wide, including HBO's Boardwalk Empire and Warner Brothers' new Great Gatsby.

Eric has consulted the families and estates of many of the crime figures discussed on the tour.  These unique first-hand accounts, combined with 130 years of community insight and over four years of active research (original source materials, public records, archived articles, personal interviews, police department records, and published accounts), makes this excursion a one-of-a-kind experience for fans and aficionados alike. MORE ABOUT ERIC HERE.

Eric Ferrara is author of
MANHATTAN MAFIA GUIDE

Rare stories, hundreds of addresses & dozens
of profiles; homes, social clubs, gangland hits.

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