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RSVPTOUR RESERVATIONS
Saturdays
12:00pm - East Village
2:00pm - Gangsters
Sundays
Mondays
12:00pm - The Bowery
2:00pm - Alphabet City
Tuesdays
12:00pm - Lower East Side
3:30pm - Sacred Spaces (monthly)
Wednesdays
12:00pm - East Village
2:00pm - Fourth Ward
Thursdays
12:00pm - Lower East Side
2:00pm - Beat Literature
Fridays
12:00pm - Lower East Side 

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The Lower East Side History Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to researching, documenting and preserving the history of the greater Lower East Side of New York City.

"...A must do" - Frommer's  |  "Top 5 in NYC..." - Time Out New York  |  "You will be amazed..." - NBC  |  "A wealth of insight..." - About.com  |  "Every trip to NYC should include a tour..." - Suzy Guides  Our guides are:
  • Professional historians & educators
  • Native New Yorkers
  • Licensed by the City of NY
  • Active community members


Through multi-generation community roots, extensive in-house research, partnerships with local museums, cultural institutions and preservation societies, LESHP is able to provide truly unique, educational, and authentic excursions that are unforgettable.


Alphabet City

Mondays @ 2:00pm - $15
Alphabet CityOnce 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...


...out of which grew jazz and the beat generation, graffiti art and punk rock, the squatters movement, the garden movement and radical underground cinema: there's more to Alphabet City than meets the eye, stories that could happen only in metropolis' darkest corner



Reservations: Not Required, you can pay your guide. But if you prefer to use paypal click here
Fee: $15
Meet: Tompkins Square Park, St. Marks and Avenue A
Directions: L train to 1st avenue or 6 train to Astor Place
Also available as a PRIVATE TOUR


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LES Gangster Book

GMW
"A Guide to Gangsters, Murderers and Weirdos of New York City's Lower East Side"

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