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The Lower East Side Tenement Museum will expand across the street to 103 Orchard with its Sadie Samuelson Levy Immigrant Heritage Center, according to a press release. The new space will serve as a ...
The Tenement Museum’s “Hard Times” tour — first offered in 1994 — relates the experiences of two families who lived at 97 Orchard Street during economic depressions 60 years apart.
This past February I took two of my adult children to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum during a trip to New York ("Museum Plan Hits Too Close to Home," April 18).
Tenement Museum. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum features a five-story brick tenement building that was home to an estimated 7,000 people, from over 20 nations, between 1863 and 1935.
A visit to the Lower East Side’s Tenement Museum inspires a new picture book. Set during the flu pandemic of 1918, “Rivka’s Presents” took 18 years from conception to publication.
Tenement Museum to Feature a Black Family’s Apartment for the First Time. The museum has shared the stories of immigrants and migrants who lived in New York City in the 19th and 20th centuries ...
The Lower East Side's beloved Tenement Museum is reopening its doors after more than a year—and it's celebrating with a big bash right on Orchard Street.. The block party kicks off at noon on ...