Posts in “Tenement Museum”

Live in The Past!

  July 30, 2015  //  Tenement Museum

Run-down and often overcrowded tenements still offered promise to immigrants who had just landed on Staten Island. Even if your name was switched from O’Suileabhain to Sullivan, you still needed a home and employment. What better way to experience what life was like immigrating to a young country than at The Tenement Museum at 103…

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Tenement Museum

  December 11, 2013  //  Tenement Museum

Ever wondered what immigrant life was like back in the day? The Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side is a fabulous educational destination. With the rate that New York is evolving and constructing, it’s amazing how gems like the Lower East Side Tenement Museum at 97 Orchard Street are still intact. That’s precisely the…

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