Walking Tour: The Jewish Gangsters of Lower Manhattan
Sunday, June 30, 2024 at 01:30pm
Museum at Eldridge Street
Ottendorfer Branch Library
135 Second Avenue
Pickpockets, extortionists, armed robbers, bootleggers, gamblers, and hitmen cropped up not only in the Five Points neighborhood but also in the growing Jewish Lower East Side.
Join us as we take to the streets and learn the story of organized crime in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in New York City, from robbed and torched pushcarts to illegal whiskey and drugs!
The tour will meet in front of the Ottendorfer Library at 135 2nd Avenue between St. Marks Place and 9th Street.
Ticket Price (Includes Museum Admission): Adults $25; Seniors, Students $20; Children 5 and Under FREE; Cool Culture Pass / SNAP Benefits $5.
