Want to learn more about the neighborhood which many powerful gangsters originated? Then take one of the daily tours offered by the Lower East Side History Project, a non-profit research and education organization.

Sundays at 12:00pm, $20pp
Trace the steps of pre-Prohibition era gangsters like Monk Eastman, Max “Kid Twist” Zweifach, “Big” Jack Zelig and Benjamin “Dopey” Fein – pivotal figures in the organizing of crime in New York City; paving the way for men like Arnold Rothstein, Meyer Lansky and "Bugsy" Siegel. Learn about the Jewish immigrant experience on the Lower East Side and the conditions that led to organized gangsterism; visit the sites of gang headquarters, shootouts and assassinations, and learn how the Jewish Mob expanded out of the slums and into a contemporary organized crime syndicate.

Saturdays at 2:00pm, $20pp
This popular and exciting weekly tour thoroughly 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, Al Capone, Giuseppe Morello, Joe "The Boss" Masseria, and many more.