Museum of the American Gangster

The building housing this museum once operated as a front for one of the most prolific prohibition era speakeasies in New York City. Beneath the floorboards of the ground floor space, authorities discovered a hidden tunnel system used by bootleggers to smuggle crates of illegal alcohol directly from the East River docks. The structure served as a clandestine meeting spot for figures like Lucky Luciano and Al Capone, who managed their underworld networks from the back rooms of this unassuming brick tenement.