New York's Tenement Museum has reopened to visitors after a year-long renovation. Located at 97 and 103 Orchard St. in Manhattan, the Tenement Museum is devoted to telling the stories of 19th and ...

The Tenement Museum looks at the experience of waves of immigrants in New York City. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Thursday. We’ll look at a museum whose reopening amid the migrant crisis ...

Harris and Jennie Levine ran a garment shop in their tenement apartment at the height of the Jewish Lower East Side. The Gumpertzes, a German-American family, came to New York in the 1870s.

NYC Tenement Museum now features Black family's apartment NEW YORK -- CBS New York is celebrating the first day of Black History Month with a glimpse back at Black life here in the city in the 1870s.

In December, the Tenement Museum in New York City opened its latest exhibit, “A Union of Hope: 1869”. The exhibit is a carefully curated recreation of Joseph and Rachel Moore’s apartment in SoHo, that ...

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 ...

How the Tenement Museum Got a New Tenant Two historians take a tour of the latest exhibition, which tells the story of a Black family by featuring, for the first time, a non-resident.