Tenement Museum
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Tenement Museum

History museum · Lower East Side ·

Guided tours of restored apartments bring immigrant stories to life

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103 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002 Get directions

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103 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002 Get directions

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"Set inside a historic tenement house (two, technically), guided tours share personal histories of the working-class individuals who lived here and how they made do with cramped quarters to build new lives in America. On neighborhood walking tours, you’ll learn how the Lower East Side’s thriving immigrant population made it the country’s most densely populated area in the 1900s." - Charlie Hobbs, Andrea Whittle

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"The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is, as the name implies, a historic tenement house (two, if you want to get technical). On a tour of the tenements, you’ll hear personal histories of the working-class individuals who lived there and see how they made do with cramped quarters to build new lives in America. On a neighborhood walking tour—the other way to visit the museum—you’ll learn about the evolution of the Lower East Side and how its thriving immigrant population made it the most densely populated area in the country during the 1900s." - Charlie Hobbs, Alex Erdekian, Melissa Liebling-Goldberg

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