Under One Roof Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Since 1888 103 orchard has stayed in the same place.
Under one roof lower east side tenement museum. However the way people have referred to the neighborhood has changed. The lower east side is rapidly gentrifying many prosperous. Lower east side tenement museum 103 orchard street new york ny 10002 telephone. June 24th 2018 under one roof at nyc s.
Gabrielle spear 27 a guide at the tenement museum asked her group of visitors in the under one roof tour which displays the lives of three families from germany puerto rico and china who. New exhibit looks inside the building where three families gained a foothold in the u s. The tenement museum explores the lives of three post world war ii families. Ten thousand immigrants lived here and in the adjoining tenement building.
The east side or jewish ghetto in the 1900s the lower east side in the 1930s loisaida in the 1960s and the eastern border of chinatown in the 1980s. All lived here at 103 orchard street on new york s lower east side. Subscribe to our newsletter sign up. 103 orchard street on new york s lower east side.
The tenement museum is now a national historic site. 1 877 975 3786 the call center is open mon sat. Under one roof carries the immigration story into the present with the experiences of newcomers who settled on the lower east side after world war ii visit the homes of bella epstein whose parents built a new life on the lower east side after the holocaust jose and andy velez whose mother left puerto rico for garment work and the wong siblings whose stories of their. Under one roof see 6 553 traveler reviews 399 candid photos and great deals for new york city ny at tripadvisor.
Under one roof the exhibit at 103 orchard st doesn t just represent the most significant expansion in the museum s 29 year history it also reflects the local institution s desire to connect more fully with. It had tenants from 1863 to 2011 though the museum dates from 1888 and it was offically established in 1992. Discover stories of lower east side arrivals who lived at 103 orchard street in the 1950s through the 1980s and worked in the neighborhood s garment industry. These communities overlapped and this site offers a glimpse of the family cultures and the complicated relations among.
The tenement museum recently broadened its focus opening a new exhibition devoted to the stories of chinese immigrants puerto rican migrants and refugees from the holocaust. Three families on the lower east side.