An estimated 50 million people worldwide died in the 1918 flu pandemic; one of them lived at 97 Orchard Street in Manhattan. Romanian Jewish immigrant Jacob Burinescu lodged in that Lower East Side ...

"Give me your tired, your poor..." Emma Lazarus wrote in her famous poem about immigration back in 1883. The controversies of the past week have put America's current views on immigration to the test, ...

Houses were graded in the census of the time from 'first-class' to 'fourth-class' according to their size and the materials used in their construction. According to official classification, 22,701 ...

One of the grandest stories in American history–immigration–becomes even grander when the Tenement Museum adds an African American experience for the first time to its presentation of immigrant family ...

IN a Stanton Street tenement, the other day, I stumbled upon a Polish capmaker’s home. There were other capmakers in the house, Russian and Polish, but they simply “lived” there. This one had a home.

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is a window into the past, walking us through life as it was for more than 7,000 immigrants in the years between 1863 and 1935. They came from more than 20 nations ...

Sure, it’s on Orchard Street and there will be a bowl of borscht waiting for you when you come in, but at the Blue Moon Hotel — a new boutique inn inspired by tenement life at the turn of the century ...