Mondays @ 2:00pm - $20
Once the godforsaken broken heart of the ghetto, the most densely populated square mile on the face of the earth, built over an industrial wasteland, then abandoned to a wild mix of marginal artists, angry anarchists, gangs, dealers, excons and thieves, against a backdrop of urban blight, tenements burned to rubble and danger on every corner...

On hiatus for the Summer
Post WWII America brought a new wave of artists, students, intellectuals and freethinkers to the Lower East Side. The radical and countercultural spirit of the predominantly immigrant, working-class neighborhood inspired new art forms in literature, music, performing arts. On this tour explore the homes, hangouts and galleries which defined a generation.

Saturdays @ 2:00pm - $25
This popular and exciting weekly tour examines the roots of the Mafia in America: From the original Sicilian Black Handers and Neapolitan Camorra to the forming of the Mafia Commission in 1931 -- this tour visits the homes, headquarters, hangouts of such criminal heavyweights as "Lucky" Luciano, Giueppe Morello, Giuseppe  "The Boss" Masseria, Paul Kelly, and many more.

Mondays @ 12:00pm - $20
The Bowery is not just the oldest and most architecturally diverse thoroughfares in NYC, it is one of most historically significant streets in the country. Beyond the myths, legends and gritty reputation, the Bowery offers an absolute treasure trove of NYC  and American history.

Sundays @ 2:00pm - $20
New York's legendary slum, a story of Irish, Italians, Africans, Germans, Jews and Chinese, their struggles, their cultures; gangs of New York to the tongs of Chinatown -- with underground passageways still in use on winding Blood Alley where countless gang members were murdered in half a century of turf warfare...

Saturdays & Wednesdays @ 12:00pm - $20
This is a crash course in East Village/Lower East Side history. From the farmlands of the 1600s and the wealthy estates of the 1700s, to immigration, tenements, the "melting pot" and how the East Village became a haven for artists and counter culturalists in the twentieth century (and everything in between). 

Wednesdays @ 2:00pm - $20
The Fourth Ward, today known as the "Two Bridges" neighborhood, was a rough, working-class, waterfront district which neighbored the infamous Five Points in the 19th century. Once one of the poorest and most hazardous slums in NYC, the neighborhood today still retains much of the grittiness and vibrancy of old-fashioned NYC, as gentrification has yet to overwhelm the area.

Thursdays and Fridays  @ 12:00pm - $20
This one-of-a-kind tour of the LES highlights all aspects of our neighborhood's rich diversity by providing an introduction to the many distinct populations -- Native-American, African, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Chinese, Hispanic, and others -- which influenced the character of the Lower East Side over the last thousand years.

Tuesdays @ 12:00pm - $20
Native Lower East Sider and professional educator, David Bellel, takes you on an intimate journey through America's melting pot. David offers over half a century of personal insight into a community which has undergone immeasurable change; often with great sacrifice. On this tour, you will learn first hand about the culture and politics of our dynamic neighborhood -- told through unique props, maps, photos and documents and stories you simply can not find anywhere else.

First Tuesday of each month @ 3:30pm
At one time no other place on earth was so densely populated with such religious and cultural diversity as NYC's Lower East Side. Here not only tolerance was developed, but as successive waves of our cultural centers: synagogues, churches, temples and mosques of all denominations and national origins...