Tenement Apartment Tours

Explore how immigrant women coped with economic hardship through the stories of Natalie Gumpertz and Mrs. Wong. Hear how these two women, living a century apart, shared similar struggles, hopes, and survival strategies as they made new lives.

Step inside the tenement homes of the Epstein and Saez Velez families in the 1950s and 1960s. Explore what life was like for Jewish Holocaust survivors and Puerto Rican migrants in a NYC neighborhood becoming more racially and culturally diverse.

Explores the challenges faced by Jewish immigrant mothers in 1902. Visit the Levine family apartment, then walk to nearby stops to learn how women organized the Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902.

Journey back in time to 1916 for an immersive experience with an actor playing Victoria Confino, a real Sephardic Jewish teenager who immigrated to the United States in 1913! Meet Victoria in her family’s recreated tenement apartment

Explore the importance of tenement small businesses through the stories of Schneider’s saloon, opened by a married couple during the height of the Civil War, and an auction house, inherited by Max Marcus during the Great Depression.

Visit the home of Joseph and Bridget Moore, Irish Catholic immigrants who grew up during the years of the Irish famine, and arrived in a rapidly changing, post-Civil War New York City to raise their family.

STARTING OCT 2 - In the early 1900s, conditions in tenements and factories inspired critical debates about life in cities. Trace this period of high immigration and political change through the stories of the Rogarshevsky and the Baldizzi families.

Visit the recreated 1910s apartment of an Eastern European Jewish family earning a living in the garment trade. Experience what daily life was like for the Rogarshevskys balancing work, family, and community.