Visitors can explore the Black migrant experience in post-Civil War era New York City through a 75-minute guided, multimedia tour. Calling all museum-goers! On Feb. 1, the Tenement Museum in Lower ...
In New York City, rapid growth and the imposition of the New York City street grid both played major roles in the look, density, and availability of housing for New Yorkers. Tenements originated from ...
To celebrate Women’s History Month, the Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association (BWBA) and the Brooklyn Brandeis Society hosted a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminar with Hon. John Leventhal on ...
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A Russian fortune teller, a German saloon owner, and an Irish family of ten are just a few former residents of 97 Orchard Street. Built in 1863, the Orchard Street tenement was home to generations of ...
Marvin H. Wagner began his life in a Brooklyn tenement at the outset of the Great Depression. At 6, his father abandoned the family. By 12, Wagner started a series of jobs at a grocery, pillow factory ...
Daniel Mishin, founder and CEO of short-stay apartment rental platform June Homes, recently invited a visitor to see a unit in a Hell's Kitchen walk-up that he was planning to renovate. "It's super ...
There is no equality of suffering on this earth. Which was worse -- wiped out by starvation along with your family in Ireland, massacred and worked to death during the Holocaust, driven off the face ...