The Tenement Museum undertook extensive research for its interactive exhibit. For years, The Tenement Museum in New York City's Lower East Side has become a living monument to the stories of 19th and ...

For more than 30 years, the Tenement Museum shared stories about the people who once lived in the building it now owns. But that meant that some groups—particularly Black New Yorkers—were excluded, as ...

LOWER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Orchard Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side is where many Italian and German immigrants lived in tenements in the 1860s. "A lot of institutions have forgotten or ...

An unrestored wall of the Tenement Museum where layers of wallpaper have peeled away (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) Photography is strictly prohibited in the apartments of the ...

Hard times call for resourceful cooks. And times were scarcely harder than during the Panic of 1873 and the first Great Depression, particularly for those eking out a new life on the Lower East Side.

For decades, the Tenement Museum has been dedicated to telling stories of New York City's immigrants, migrants, and refugees. And an important part of understanding that story is through food. The ...

There’s a row of five-story buildings off Fifth Avenue in Park Slope that seem to fit the neighborhood standard for prewar, ...

The Tenement House, which is operated by the National Trust for Scotland, is a kind of walk-in time capsule. Its restored rooms show how a particular Glaswegian, one Agnes Toward, lived from 1911 to ...

A man who built his own tenement claims it is more affordable than people might think, and has highlighted the benefits of self-building. Architect John Kinsley lives in a tenement block he built for ...