The Historian · Eleanor · New York
Tenement Museum
Most history is told from the top down — kings, presidents, generals. This tells it from the inside of a tenement apartment, through the actual families who lived at 97 and 103 Orchard Street. It's the single best place to understand how the immigrant city actually lived. Entry is tour-only; you can't wander.
Restored Lower East Side apartments telling the immigrant story building by building, family by family.
— Eleanor, The Historian
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