Editors’ Note: This post originally ran in 2010 and has been updated. You can read the original post here. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is a unique and authentic look at life on the Lower East ...

By Lola Fadulu The Tenement Museum looks at the experience ... household items preserved in the crowded apartments of the Lower East Side, including curry powder nearly a century old and jars ...

Instead, it was written 15 years ago, after author Laurie Wallmark made a visit to the Lower East Side’s Tenement Museum, a living history museum that highlights how immigrants lived in the ...

The museum is housed in a restored tenement building on the Lower East Side, and each tour takes visitors through the meticulously recreated apartments and businesses of real families who lived ...

Now, after a four-year hiatus, the Tenement Museum’s popular walking tour Foods of the Lower East Side is back, exploring 150 years of immigrant cuisine. RECOMMENDED: First look: The Tenement ...

The opening of the Hotel on Rivington in 2004 underscored the Lower East Side’s transformation from ... glass towers to rise above the sea of tenements south of Houston Street.

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. This building ...