Visit the tenement homes of the Epstein and Saez Velez families in the 1950s and 1960s. The families shared a tenement building at 103 Orchard Street, and shared a changing Lower East Side, yet had very different experiences as Jewish Holocaust survivors and Puerto Rican migrants.
What was it like to live in a neighborhood becoming more racially and culturally diverse and how did newly arrived families find a sense of belonging?