To see this, we can look to history — the New York City tenement acts of the 19th and early 20th century created similar initiatives and benefits. Throughout the 19th century, epidemic disease ...

Countless tours, museum exhibits and books recount the Lower East Side's immigrant history, from 19th century tenements to Chinatown and Little Italy. But far less attention is paid to the history ...

For years, The Tenement Museum in New York City's Lower East Side has become a living monument to the stories of 19th and early 20th-century working-class New Yorkers.

You note that while 19th- and early 20th-century tenements had real problems, many residents weren’t actually unhappy or feeling degraded by their living situations.

“Too often, the stories of Black New Yorkers in the 19th century have been written out of history,” said Annie Polland, President of the Tenement Museum, in a statement shared with ESSENCE.

News about Lower East Side Tenement Museum. ... The museum has shared the stories of immigrants and migrants who lived in New York City in the 19th and 20th centuries for nearly four decades.

In 1871, in a squalid tenement on Chrystie Street, 12-year-old Moth Fenwick lives with her mother, a fortune teller whose affections Moth craves and never receives. It's not that they're barely ...

For years, The Tenement Museum in New York City's Lower East Side has become a living monument to the stories of 19th and early 20th-century working-class New Yorkers. The museum is housed in a f ...