The Tenement Museum in New York City offers visitors a unique opportunity to step back in time and experience what life was like for immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Speaking to IrishCentral in 2020, Dave Favalora, Director of the New York Tenement Museum, said that the Orchard Street building consisted of 22 apartments holding 22 large families.In total, as ...

When you think of New York City, images of towering skyscrapers, bustling streets, and iconic landmarks like the Statue of ...

However, NYC offers so many notable attractions it ... class immigrants from 1863 until 1935 at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum National Historic Site. With specialized tours focusing on ...

RECOMMENDED: Full NYC events calendar Been there ... For more than 30 years, the Tenement Museum shared stories about the people who once lived in the building it now owns. But that meant that ...

Rebecca Smeyne for The New York Times In recent years, the Brooklyn Museum has attempted to rebuild its audience after the pandemic led to a drop in attendance. (General admission is free ...

Schuyler Swenson is an audio producer, editor and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Prior to NPR Schuyler ... she taught histories of immigration at the Tenement Museum. She enjoys horn sections ...

The Tenement Museum is an excellent primer on the neighbourhood's past, and offers a general history of immigration in New York City, a reminder that 99 per cent of the United States is non ...

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