{"id":166231,"date":"2026-03-17T14:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166231\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:56:42","slug":"walking-tour-the-jewish-gangsters-of-lower-manhattan-03-19-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166231\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Tour: The Jewish Gangsters of Lower Manhattan \n03\/19\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/60087E1A871-FA79-4DD2-A537A0047BF64459.jpg\" alt=\"Walking Tour: The Jewish Gangsters of Lower Manhattan at Museum at Eldridge Street\" style=\"max-width: 100%\"\/><br \/>\n<br \/>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! <\/p>\n<p>\nHighlights: <\/p>\n<p>\nLearn about the famous gangsters on the Lower East Side including Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, and Arnold Rothstein Meet the lesser known personalities like \u201cDopey\u201d Benny Fein, \u201cBig\u201d Jack Zelig, \u201cLepke\u201d Buchalter, and the notorious Samuel \u201cRed\u201d Levine Walk the streets with an expert guide and visit where these Jewish Gangsters lived and conducted their business Join a Museum at Eldridge Street expert guide on Thursday, March 19th at 1:30pm. <\/p>\n<p>\nWe will meet in front of the Ottendorfer Library at 135 2nd Avenue between St. Marks Place and 9th Street. Tickets must be purchased in advance of arrival. <\/p>\n<p>\nTours will run about two hours in length, although this may vary. <\/p>\n<p>Venue: Museum at Eldridge Street<\/p>\n<p>12 Eldridge Street<br \/>\n<a href=\" https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=12+Eldridge+Street,+New York,+NY+10002\" target=\"_new\" class=\"button btn_1\" style=\"color:white;\">Map<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>212-219-0888 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pickpockets, extortionists, armed robbers, bootleggers, gamblers, and hitmen cropped up not only in the Five Points neighborhood but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-166231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}