The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is a window into the past, walking us through life as it was for more than 7,000 immigrants in the years between 1863 and 1935. They came from more than 20 nations ...

An estimated 50 million people worldwide died in the 1918 flu pandemic; one of them lived at 97 Orchard Street in Manhattan. Romanian Jewish immigrant Jacob Burinescu lodged in that Lower East Side ...

Tucked on the Lower East Side, just blocks from the Williamsburg Bridge, the Tenement Museum embodies and represents the history of how New York as we know it came to be. Housed at 97 Orchard Street, ...

Photo courtesy of the Tenement Museum. At the Tenement Museum’s new permanent exhibition, Under One Roof, the lives of three immigrant families intersect in a single building on the Lower East Side.

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 ...

One of the great strengths of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum is site specificity. The New York City National Historic Site tells real stories of immigrants who lived in their buildings since the ...

The Tenement Museum is a popular destination for tourists who are interested in learning about the history of immigration in the United States. Located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the museum ...

One of the grandest stories in American history–immigration–becomes even grander when the Tenement Museum adds an African American experience for the first time to its presentation of immigrant family ...

Located at 97 and 103 Orchard St. in Manhattan, the Tenement Museum is devoted to telling the stories of 19th and 20th-century immigrants who inhabited the building, allowing visitors to take a step ...

The Tenement Museum Union has filed a complaint with the labor board against the New York museum, accusing its leadership of unfair labor practices following a round of layoffs that affected the ...

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The Tenement Museum, located in New York City’s Lower East Side neighborhood, has for decades attempted to tell the true stories of immigrants nestling into America’s most populous city during the ...