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With a whole lot more "style" than "substance" when it comes to the gangster life, Gideon's knowledge of Mob culture came first from Goodfellas, The Godfather, The Sopranos, and films from the golden age of cinema starring Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney. After devouring a library worth of Mob history, Gideon teamed up with Patrick Smith in 2011 to found the NYC Gangster Tour.
A veteran of the NYC Tourism industry, Gideon hails from The Levys' Unique New York, New York's first family of tour guides. If given a choice to be a major player in the crime world or the tourism world, Gideon would delightfully choose the latter.
He lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with his girlfriend Danielle, and his dog Betty. And for a nice Jewish boy, he makes a mean marinara sauce. |
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Patrick Smith is a native Manhattanite who hails from a long line of journalists and media professionals. After a plush boyhood, the street culture of late 20th century Gotham led him astray, and for Patrick that meant a headlong immersion into the street life.
Like many of his peers, Patrick eventually found himself a not-so-well received guest of the State. More than once. A far cry from all the places he was supposed to be.
He carried his weight, learned a lot and woke up. With an unlikely blend of academic bona fides and genuine street cred, he recently appeared at length in Secret Societies episode of "Love-Lust" on the Sundance channel, has written at length for ESPN and with Gideon Levy, a seasoned NYC Tour Guide, founded the NYC Gangster Tour in 2011.
Patrick lives with his wife, Claudia, and young son Aidan in the East Village. |
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3-hour NYC Mob Bus Tour
Where: 51st and Broadway
When: Saturdays and Sundays, 2pm
Cost: $45
NY Pass: Yes!
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Experience a taste of all things Mob-related throughout Midtown and Downtown Manhattan. The tour visits:
• Midtown East to hear the tale of the dramatic murder of Big Paul Castellano.
• The former Garment District and the Highline Park for a view of what was once the largest, most corrupt waterfront in America.
• The Italian West Village to learn a little about the Genovese/Costello war and the Mob's influence on bohemian Village culture in the 1960's.
• Little Italy to experience the Sicilian and Neopolitan culture where La Cosa Nostra in New York began.
• The Lower East Side to ride through the once gritty streets where to Gotham's greatest Jewish gangsters cut their teeth.
• The East Village to hear about the Castellamarese War, the rise of "Lucky" Luciano, and how organized crime got organized.
Ending, of course, safely and soundly back in Times Square. We could tell you more here, but then we'd have to go for a very different ride...
COMING SOON:
• 3-Hour Mob bus tour of Uptown and Harlem
• 3-Hour Mob bus tour of Downtown and Brooklyn
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NYC Mob Little Italy/Chinatown Walking Tour
Where: Mulberry St and Worth St, Columbus Park
When: Wednesdays, 11am – 12:30pm
Cost: $20
NY Pass: Yes!
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Mulberry street: from Chinatown to Little Italy. It's where most of the notorious Gangsters in New York rose. Learn about Chinatown's "Bloody Angle", up to Little Italy to learn of La Mano Nera, famously connected restaurants and cafes and hear the tale of how the "Teflon Don" sealed his own fate.
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NYC Mob Jewish Gangsters of the LES Walking Tour
Where: Canal and Forsyth streets, Lower East Side
When: Thursdays, 11am – 12:30pm
Cost: $20
NY Pass: Yes!
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Otherwise known as the Kosher Nostra, one generation of Jewish Gangsters at the dawn of the 20th introduced loan sharking, large-scale gambling and the contract killer to the world of Organized Crime. See the old hangouts and delis where the greatest Jewish Gangsters in America got in, got rich, and got out.
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NYC Mob Tour: Greenwich Village Walking Tour
Where: 7th ave and Bleecker st
When: Fridays, 11AM - 12:30PM
Cost:$20
NY Pass: Yes!
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Not unlike Sicily with it's winding, narrow streets and provincial air, Greenwich Village was the beat of many major Mafiosi like Vito Genovese, Vincenzo "The Chin" Gigante and Joe Gallo. See the social clubs and bohemian cafes where some of the best American mobsters got made and got fed.
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NYC Mob Tour: East Village Walking Tour
Where: DiRobertis Pastry Shop: 176 E1st street between E10th and E11th St.
When: Saturdays and Sundays, 11am – 12:30pm
Cost: $20
NY Pass: Yes!
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Home to every major ethnic group beginning the journey into America, the East Village was most notoriously home to the notorious Charles "Lucky" Luciano, the founder of the American Mob Syndicate. Walk the streets where the Castellamarese War raged throughout the 1920's and see the legacy of the Mob's role in the Urban America's drug epidemic alive and well on our city streets.
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NYC Mob Tour: Evening Downtown Walking Tour
Where: DiRobertis Pastry Shop: 176 E1st street between E10th and E11th St.
When: Fridays and Saturdays, 6PM - 8:00PM
Cost: $35
NY Pass: Yes!
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A longer, more thorough version of our East Village walking tour, learn the full story of the rise and fall of the American Mafia over the last 100 years as the sun sets over Gotham. The tour goes through the East Village, the Lower East Side and ends in Little Italy, with options and deals to eat in some of the best restaurants on Mulberry st.
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