94 Orchard Street, Lower East Side, New York: Tenement Museum
Staring out a window of a 350 square ft apartment that housed six, this neighborhood looks, I am guessing almost identical to how it did at the turn of the 20th century. First German, then Irish, then Jewish neighborhood then condemned then discovered again 50 years later.
"The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is a portrait of immigrant life in 19th- and early-20th-century New York City at 97 Orchard St. The museum used to house thousands of working-class folks, but it is now a portal into the past. After being abandoned for more than 50 years, this tenement time capsule was revived. With its apartments expertly restored and re-created using everything from personal letters and journals to crime-scene photos and death certificates, the museum brings the building's history back to life."
-http://www.nycgo.com/venues/lower-east-side-tenement-museum
94 Orchard Street, Lower East Side, New York: Tenement Museum
Staring out a window of a 350 square ft apartment that housed six, this neighborhood looks, I am guessing almost identical to how it did at the turn of the 20th century. First German, then Irish, then Jewish neighborhood then condemned then discovered again 50 years later.
"The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is a portrait of immigrant life in 19th- and early-20th-century New York City at 97 Orchard St. The museum used to house thousands of working-class folks, but it is now a portal into the past. After being abandoned for more than 50 years, this tenement time capsule was revived. With its apartments expertly restored and re-created using everything from personal letters and journals to crime-scene photos and death certificates, the museum brings the building's history back to life."
-http://www.nycgo.com/venues/lower-east-side-tenement-museum