When Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives in 1890, New York City’s Lower East Side was the epicenter of American tenement life. At one point, almost three hundred thousand people were ...

The immigrant experience of an Irish family fleeing the Great Famine lives on at the Tenement Museum in New York City. The After the Famine: 1869 tour takes you back in time to see how the Moores ...

Lackawanna County was once a Democratic stronghold. In 2024, it is a hotly contested battleground, where the stakes go far beyond politics. Kamala Harris Makes Her Closing Argument at the Ellipse ...

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(JTA) — The Tenement Museum, which tells the stories of Jewish and other immigrants who lived on New York City’s Lower ... make our programs come to life,” Vogel said in a statement.

It was a simple request. When I asked Annie Polland, director of the Tenement Museum on New York’s Lower East Side, whether I could bring my undergraduate NYU journalism class to learn about the ...