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 ...

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 ...

New York City serves as a stage for much of rock ... 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 Village ...

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 ...

Amazing photo collection released for new exhibit on documentary photography at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan 'The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951' captures daily life of ...

(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 ...