Mafia walking tour NYC

Challenge everything you know about organized crime in America. This popular and exciting walking tour through Little Italy 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.

We also 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.

• Former mafia social clubs
• Former homes and businesses of influential mobsters
• Sites of notorious mob hits
• Former Sicilian and Neapolitan districts of Little Italy
• Inside a famous former speakeasy
• “Black Hand Block”
• “Curb Exchange,” an open air alcholol market during Prohibition
• Ravenite Social Club
• Little Italy restaurant district
• Movie locations where Godfather, Sopranos, Mean Streets, Donnie Brasco and more were filmed
• Much, much more

• The seeds of Cosa Nostra in Sicily
• Italian immigration
• 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

Fridays at 10:00am – $30pp
RSVP REQUIRED (below) at least 12 hours in advance
Also available as a private tour ($150 per group through April 1)

Eric Ferrara is founder of the Lower East Side History Project, a 7-time published author and native New Yorker whose family goes back four generations in Little Italy. He is the founder of the Museum of the American Gangster, the Lower East Side Welcome Center and East Village Visitor Center. Eric has worked as a consultant on several movie & tv projects including History Channel, Netflix’s The Irishman, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, AMC’s Making of the Mob, and Warner Brothers’ new Great Gatsby. His books include Manhattan Mafia Guide.

Ferrara has consulted several law enforcement agencies and crime victims as well as families and estates of many of the mafia figures discussed on the tour. These unique first-hand accounts, combined with 150 years of community insight and over two decades of active research, makes this excursion a one-of-a-kind experience for fans and aficionados alike.

This is no Wikipedia tour. This is 150 years of insight from the inside.

Learn more about Eric on Wikipedia, or see tour reviews on Tripadvisor.

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