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 ...

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.

The Tenement Museum on New York’s Lower East Side will feature a new permanent exhibit centering a Black family. Roshni Khatri for The New York Times The shift caused some controversy.

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 ...

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.