The museum consists of period immigrant apartments from more than a century ago — conditions that would make social distancing impossible. (JTA) — The Tenement Museum, which tells the ...

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 ...

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 ...

This vintage house of worship doesn’t have a prayer. The site of a former century-old synagogue for Ukrainian immigrants in the East Village is set to be torn down to make room for six trendy ...