Kat Lloyd stands in the dim light on the first-floor staircase of a dilapidated, New York City tenement building. Before her: a tour of wide-eyed teens on a field trip from their high school in Queens ...

ONE of the latest evidences of growing American civilization is the interest manifested in housing reform. Stimulated largely by the work of the New York Tenement House Commission of 1901, many cities ...

Since its founding in 1988, the Tenement Museum’s walking tours of the Lower East Side have told the stories of the European, Chinese, and Puerto Rican families who made their homes in the ...

In December, the Tenement Museum in New York City opened its latest exhibit, “A Union of Hope: 1869”. The exhibit is a carefully curated recreation of Joseph and Rachel Moore’s apartment in SoHo, that ...

IN a Stanton Street tenement, the other day, I stumbled upon a Polish capmaker’s home. There were other capmakers in the house, Russian and Polish, but they simply “lived” there. This one had a home.

The Tenement Museum's exhibit of the home of Joseph and Rachel Moore, Black New Yorkers who lived in Lower Manhattan’s tenements in the 1860s and 1870s. The Tenement Museum's exhibit of the home of ...

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, located at 97 ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Spying flames vomiting from a Manhattan tenement one night last week, a scavenging junkman named Roderick Good turned in an alarm. In their beds in the five-story rookery lay more than 100 tenants.

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. A tourist ...