Join a group of fellow travelers and take a walk on the wild side through Manhattan’s infamous Hell’s Kitchen.
Find out where gang leaders, bootleggers and other shady characters rubbed shoulders in the crime-ridden cauldron of this formerly notorious neighborhood.
Visit the bars where great actors and playwrights once spent their off-duty hours. Learn how the arrival of immigrants in the 1950s reignited gang violence and inspired the musical 'West Side Story'. Hell's Kitchen may have risen from its seedy past to be a popular and safe place for an evening out, but it still has plenty of tales to tell!
With your guide you will visit four to five different pubs during the evening and enjoy three complimentary domestic beers along the way. You can easily walk from one bar to the other and the distance covered on the tour is about 1 mile (1.6 km).
Significant attractions and stories include:
• Time Square
• How it became known as Hell’s Kitchen
• Caroline’s on Broadway
• Tin Pan Alley
• Irish gang member Edward Cummiskey
Bars you will visit include:
• Rudy’s Bar and Grill
• Druids Bar
• Playwright Celtic Pub
Tour Schedule
Wednesday at 7:30pm
Duration
Approximately three and a half hours. Distance covered is roughly one mile.