(JTA) — The Tenement Museum, which tells the stories of Jewish and other immigrants who lived on New York City’s Lower East Side, announced that it is laying off its tour guides and other part ...

The Tenement Museum in New York City offers visitors a unique opportunity to step back in time and experience what life was like for immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Tenement Museum focuses on America's urban immigrant history by telling the stories of 97 Orchard Street. Built on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1863, this tenement apartment building was ...

WNYC is partnering with the Tenement Museum for “The Triangle Fire: Response, Reform and Reverberations,” in commemoration of ...

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 ... Synagogue is now a cozy museum—but still has ...

at an hour when half the world of New-York was just beginning to think how it should amuse itself in the pleasant interval between dinner and bed, a tenement house in Elm street, in this City ...

An immigration museum in New York is naturally going to have a strong Irish presence, and The Tenement Museum celebrates the ...

“Where we are right now in the Lower East Side used to be the most overcrowded area in the entire world,” says Emily, a young guide with the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. I’ve come here ...

The Tenement Museum focuses on America's urban immigrant history by telling the stories of 97 Orchard Street. Built on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1863, this tenement apartment building was ...