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 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.

HERE'S HOW ABE LINCOLN, CORNED BEEF CONNOISSEUR, FLAVORED AMERICA'S ST. PATRICK'S DAY CELEBRATIONS It’s a gritty six-story one-time tenement at 96-98 St. Mark’s Place in the now trendy East ...

Hidden away in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the New York Tenement Museum tells the tale of thousands of Irish families that sailed from Ireland to the United States in search of a better life.

Morrie Markoff, who was born to Jewish parents in an East Harlem tenement in 1914 and lived to become what was believed to be the oldest man in the United States, died June 3 at his home in Los ...