Steel City Vice Walking Tours

Pittsburgh walking tours are no longer being offered.

Fifth Avenue by the Numbers walking tour, 2021.
Photo by Jaquay Carter.

Dr. David Rotenstein has designed and led historical walking tours in Silver Spring, Md., Decatur, Ga., and Pittsburgh. In 2021, the Boston Globe interviewed him for a feature on walking tours that highlight forgotten, erased, and marginalized histories.

The Boston Globe, Sunday Nov. 7, 2021.

True Crime/Gamgster Tours

  • South Side Gangster Tour
  • Squirrel Hill Gangster Tour
  • Fifth Avenue by the Numbers
  • Downtown Gangster Tour
  • Northside Rum Row Gangster Tour
  • East Liberty Gangster Tour

Tito-Mecca-Zizza House pop-up museum, April 2022.

Reviews from the 2022 season under the Doors Open Pittsburgh umbrella:

… It was fascinating.
… The most knowledgable tour guide we’ve ever come across.

Credit: Doors Open Pittsburgh.