Tenement Talks---Free New York Events

July 7 at 6:30 PM

Lower East Side Murder Mystery

Solve a murder in the neighborhood based on an acutal 1873 case.

Interactive Theatrical Experience
Hosted by Carlo D'Amore and
Live In Theater Productions

an evening series of lectures, readings, panel discussions and programming that provides perspective on New York City’s rich culture.

Free & held at 108 Orchard unless otherwise noted.

RSVP to events(at)tenement.org.

July. 7 at 6:30 PM

Lower East Side Murder Mystery

Solve a murder in the neighborhood based on an acutal 1873 case.

Interactive Theatrical Experience
Hosted by Carlo D'Amore and
Live In Theater Productions

July. 9 at 6:30 PM

Jeffreys Meats

Meet this fourth-generation master butcher whose family business opened at 188 Orchard Street in 1920 and still thrives in the Essex Street Market after 90 years.

July. 14 at 6:30 PM

The Mad Ones: Crazy Joe Gallo and the Revolution at the edge of the Underworld

Tom Folsom's book "...takes the reader back to a time when the underworld and the counterculture seemed to be on parallel tracks. Brutal and elegiac, the story of Crazy Joe and the Gallo brothers is one for the ages." --T.J. English, author of Havana Nocturne and The Westies.

July. 29 at 6:30 PM

Let the Great World Spin

"With Philippe Petit's breathless 1974 tightrope walk between the uncompleted WTC towers at its axis, Colum McCann offers us a lyrical cyloramic high-low portrait of New York City in its days of burning." --Richard Price, author of Lush Life.

July. 30 at 7:30 PM

LES Stories: Tales from Little Italy

Professional storytellers share tales from the old neighborhood at this popular series. Guests are invited to bring three-minute stories to share.

Kat Long, Forbidden Apple: A Century of Sex and Sin in NYC (Part 2), April 2, 2009

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Kat Long, Forbidden Apple: A Century of Sex and Sin in NYC (Part 1), April 2, 2009

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Carl Capotorto, Twisted Head, January 27, 2009

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Mort Zachter, Dough, January 27, 2009

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Jeffrey Shandler & Barry Trachtenberg, Yiddish: A Vanishing Language, December 9, 2008

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Erin Einhorn, This American Life (The Pages In Between), November 17, 2008

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Richard Roper, Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War (Part 1), November 12, 2008

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Richard Roper, Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War (Part 2), November 12, 2008

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Patricia Klindienst, The Earth Knows My Name (Vanzetti's Garden), May 13, 2008

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Patricia Klindienst, The Earth Knows My Name (A Polish American Vintner and a Japanese American Berry Farmer), May 13, 2008

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Richard Price, Lush Life, April 15, 2008

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Colm Toibin, St Patricks Day Readings (Brooklyn), March 17, 2008

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Colum McCann, St Patricks Day Readings (This Side of Brightness), March 17, 2008

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Andrew Dolkart, Biography of a Tenement House in New York City (Introduction), April 5, 2007

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Andrew Dolkart, Biography of a Tenement House in New York City (Banks), April 5, 2007

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Andrew Dolkart, Biography of a Tenement House in New York City (Public Housing), April 5, 2007

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