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.
Presented by the Lower East Side History Project.
Official Website: http://leshp.org/walking-tours/60-mafia-tour
Added by East Village History Project on September 20, 2012