Lower East Side Tenement Museum - A New York City Museum by NycTourist.com

The Tenement Museum’s landmark building at 97 Orchard Street is the first homestead of urban working class and poor immigrant people to be preserved and interpreted in the United States. Located on New York’s Lower East Side, 97 Orchard Street was home to an estimated 7,000 people from more than 20 nations between 1863 and 1935, when it closed as a residence.


	Photograph Courtesy Battman Studios.

Visitors tour carefully restored apartments and learn about the lives of actual past residents: the German Jewish Gumpertz family (1870s-80s), who lived through the Panic of 1873; the Levines from Poland (1897), who ran a garment business in their apartment; the Rogarshevsky family, Eastern European Jews (1918) mourning the loss of their patriarch from tuberculosis; Victoria Confino (1916), a Sephardic Jewish teenager who talks about her new life in America in an interactive family-oriented living history program; and the Baldizzi family, Italian Catholics from Sicily (1920s-30s), who were among 97 Orchard Street’s last residents during the Great Depression.

Photograph by Greg Scaffidi.
Courtesy LESTM.

Photograph Courtesy Battman Studios.

The mission of the Tenement Museum is to promote tolerance and historical perspective through the presentation and interpretation of the variety of immigrant and migrant experiences on the Lower East Side. The Tenement Museum is a designated National Historic Site, affiliated with the National Park Service, and a featured property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In 2006, The Tenement Museum hosted nearly 125,000 visitors, representing all 50 states and more than 30 countries.

Photograph Courtesy Battman Studios.

Tours: Seven days a week, 11:15-5 PM. Not all tours offered every day... check www.tenement.org for details & Seasonal tour schedules.

SUMMER SCHEDULE
July & August, tours will be offered 7 days a week, from 10 am - 5 pm, with evening tours until 7:15 pm on Thursdays. ALL of our tours will be offered every day (Getting By, Piecing it Together, The Moores, The Confino Family, Immigrant Soles Walking Tour)

To learn more about visiting the Tenement Museum or to explore our online archives, please visit www.tenement.org.

For more information:
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
108 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002
(212) 982-8420
www.tenement.org

Summer Hours:
Monday: 11AM-5:30PM
Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday: 11AM-6PM
Thursday: 11AM-7:30PM
Saturday & Sunday: 10:45AM-6:00PM
*Please call the above number for more details on tour times.