Stories from the Dark Side of New York City with NYPD Guide

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Pass By: Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall Street, New York City, NY 10006

Trinity Church

Stop At: Wall Street, New York City, NY 10005

The neighborhoods you visit are much nicer today than they were in the past but has NYC really cleaned up its act? As part of your tour, you’ll visit lower Manhattan, in particular Wall Street and the Financial District, to learn about modern, white collar crime (and the going rate for a get-out-of-jail-free card).

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Little Italy, Mulberry Street, New York City, NY 10013

Irish gangs weren’t the only group to terrorise the Lower East Side however. Throughout the 1900s the Italian mafia kept Little Italy in a choke hold, while the 1970s and 1980s were dominated by Chinese turf wars that were so bloody you’ll hardly believe the stories.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Lower East Side, New York City, NY

On the Lower East Side, you’ll see tenement buildings where Irish immigrants lived in subhuman conditions. The most notorious area here was the ‘Five Points’ - a junction so infamous for its gang crime (rumor has it some even lived in burrows under the streets!) that Charles Dickens came to check it out himself on a trip to NYC, not believing it could live up to its reputation. It did, of course, as your guide will tell you.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Chinatown, Canal Street to Bayard Street, New York City, NY 10013

Irish gangs weren’t the only group to terrorise the Lower East Side however. Throughout the 1900s the Italian mafia kept Little Italy in a choke hold, while the 1970s and 1980s were dominated by Chinese turf wars that were so bloody you’ll hardly believe the stories.

Duration: 20 minutes

Pass By: Take Walks, New York City, NY 10018-5453

Take Walks