In the Tenement Museum’s newest virtual tour, Reclaiming Black Spaces, we’ll highlight stories of how Black and African Americans shaped Lower Manhattan as they made homes, businesses, and communities there over the centuries. What drew Black New Yorkers to Lower Manhattan, and how were their experiences shaped by that migration? How did those communities create a sense of home, and how did they resist the racism they faced? From the story of Sebastiaen de Britto, one of the first Black residents of the area in the 1640s, to Studio We, a musicians collective in the 1970s, we’ll look through windows into the past that expand the history of today’s Lower East Side. 

Cost: $10/device; free with Museum membership