New Walking Tour Will Introduce You to Lower Manhattan’s Most Dastardly Outlaws

New York City’s rich history is littered with the stories of heroes, villains and the ambiguous in-betweens. Now, a new downtown walking tour will explore the many outlaws who helped make our multi-layered city what it is today. Purefinder New York’s “The Outlaws Who Built Manhattan” tour covers “how key individuals and organizations, via methods of piracy, misconduct, and double-dealings, established the evolution and expansion of Manhattan and beyond,” and deep dives into everything from pirates (!!) to old-money dynasties, to pill-and-potion-makers, to the rise of the NYPD and FBI. Purefinder is run by K. Krombie, a journalist and author of “Death in New York,” so you know you’re getting the good stuff. 

The nearly two-hour tour covers 1.3 miles, starting from the Millennium Downtown New York (55 Church St.), with stops including the site of Captain Kidd’s former residence at Hanover Square, the site of the House of Morgan (J.P. Morgan’s original bank headquarters on Wall Street) and White Horse Tavern on Bridge Street.

You can catch a tour on February 24 at 3 p.m.; tickets run $29 each, and can be purchased here.  

photo: courtesy Purefinder New York