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Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays @ 12:00pm - $15
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.
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Saturdays @ 2:00pm - $25
 This exciting and popular walking tour covers 150 years of crime and vice in NYC. Trace the steps of criminal legends like Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Bugsy Siegel -- who earned their criminal stripes on the streets of the Lower East Side -- and explore the roots of organized crime in America.
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Wednesdays @ 2:00pm - $15
 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.
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Saturdays & Wednesdays @ 12:00pm - $15
 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).
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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...
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Sundays @ 2:00pm - $15
 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...
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Mondays @ 12:00pm - $15
 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.
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Thursdays @ 2:00pm - $15
 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.
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Mondays @ 2:00pm - $15
 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...
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