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Child’s Play at 97 Orchard

Most visitors don’t notice it, but the re-created apartments in our tenement are...

Five Questions With…

This is a new regular feature on our blog to introduce our readers and visitors to some of...

Stories Yun Told Me: Chinese New Year, Part 2

“Stories Yun Told Me” is a new series of illustrated stories created by...

Love Letters to the Lower East Side

In December, we told you about a remarkable gift of family photographs donated to the...

Stories Yun Told Me: Chinese New Year, Part 1

“Stories Yun Told Me” is a new series of illustrated stories created by...

A Saint’s Day for Bridget

On one of our living history tours for school groups, students can meet Bridget Moore and...

Inaugural New York

Here at the Tenement Museum, we tell the stories of average people who made our country...

Bread Givers and Becoming a Person

Editor’s Note: Meredith Heil is the Museum’s Tenement Talks & Culinary...

Innovative Conservation at 97 Orchard

For some of our visitors, the restored apartments at 97 Orchard Street are the most...

School-Group Connections

With a new year upon us, it’s a good time for reflection. And halfway through the school...

Happy New Year!

Holidays and historic foods go hand in hand, and new year’s traditions are no...

German Christmas

A few months ago we talked about how we have the German-American immigrants to thank for...

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