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Recipes for Remembrance: Victoria Confino’s Passover Seder

Passover (Pesach in Hebrew) is the ultimate food holiday. Unlike so many Jewish holidays...

Tenement Reflections: The Tales of a Tortured Tenant

While many new immigrant families arrived in America seeking different opportunities...

Picturing Child Labor: Lewis W. Hine

Once you have seen a photograph by Lewis W. Hine it is hard to forget it. Though...

The History of Lower East Side Architecture

The American Institute of Architects, in its Guide to New York City, has this to say about...

Luck of the Irish: Not Always a Good Thing

Though it is forgotten annually by legions of young people celebrating in green,there...

Guest Blogger: Emily Spivack

Emily Spivack has some major accomplishments under her belt, and you can be sure that belt...

Learning Through Lunchtime

What can a school lunch teach you about immigration? A lot, according to Lower East Side...

History Repeats Itself : Inspect & Protect Your Tenement

Relics in our present often spark an intriguing interest to look back into our past....

Spicing up the Tradition of Chinese Food in NYC

For many Americans Chinese culture is Chinese food. Chinese restaurants are ubiquitous...

Playing With History

As a child, Oregon Trail was my first foray into the wonderful world of historical video...

In Northern Ireland, a Resiliant Jewish Community

The history of Northern Ireland is infamously complex but no one can dispute the...

Keeping Time: One Building’s Many Lives in the East Village

“…he’d left Chicago and come East in a fashion that rather took your breath away:...

A Tenement Story
Print and e-Book
A visually compelling experience, A Tenement Story is the culmination of over 30 years of dedicated stewardship of two tenement buildings on Orchard Street through vivid photographs of the last two centuries.

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Your Story, Our Story
A Digital Collection
Your Story, Our Story features objects that tell personal stories of American immigration and migration. The Tenement Museum invites people across the country to share these mementos and stories in our online digital storytelling exhibit.

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Notes from the Tenement