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Lower East Side Tenement Museum Description

This Lower East Side Tenement Museum chronicles tenement life in the Lower East Side, an immigrant portal for over 150 years. Until 1879, there were no regulations governing to construction or maintenance of the East Side tenements where thousands of immigrants from the world over huddled together. Changing exhibits, slide shows and walking shows are part of the museum's services.

Each floor is restored to one of three different eras so that visitors can glimpse life over several generations.

Note also that the building at 97 Orchard Street is on the National Register. The building was home to an estimated 7,000 people between 1863 and 1935.

This street was once really a farmer's Orchard when New York

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Hobbies & Activities category: Historical museum; National Register of Buildings

Address

Lower East Side Tenement Museum
108 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002-6106
United States

Map Lower East Side Tenement Museum

Phone 1 (212) 982-8420
Fax 1 (212) 431-0402

http://www.tenement.org

Hours



Open	11:15	11:15	11:15	11:15	11:15	11:15	11:15
Closed	17:00	17:00	17:00	17:00	17:00	17:00	17:00

Always closed on:
New Year's Day (January 1) Martin Luther King's Birthday - USA (3rd Monday, January) President's Day - USA (3rd Monday, February) Thanksgiving - USA (4th Thursday, November) Christmas - Christian (December 25)