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fromTime Out New York
1 week ago

6 fascinating facts you probably didn't know about NYC's Tenement Museum

The Tenement Museum preserves Lower East Side immigrant and refugee home life from the 1860s to the 1980s inside real tenement buildings.
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

This museum immerses students in U.S. history: 'You can smell it, touch it, see it'

Kat Lloyd stands in the dim light on the first-floor staircase of a dilapidated, New York City tenement building. Before her: a tour of wide-eyed teens on a field trip from their high school in Queens. Their guide, Lloyd, encourages the students to imagine the building's 22 apartments when they were new, back in 1863, and brimming with mostly German immigrants.
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