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Lower East Side Tenement Museum

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Citysearch | Orchard Street's museum documents both everyday family lives and the broader history of immigration.

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum was founded in 1988. The building that houses the museum, a preserved tenement at 97 Orchard Street, was called home by some 7,000 people from more than 20 nations--from...
citysearch.com - expert review - 07/11/2005
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The Tenement Museum is a surprisingly nice way to spend a few hours. The guides are knowledgeable and love their subject. I'd advise against taking ...
gusto.com - user review - 08/28/2007
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Great Staff--they have a right to collectively bargain

The bookstore and museum are excellent, but it is compromised by the fact that the management is resisting attempts by its staff to unionize. How can a museum dedicated to portraying the Progressive Era, and...
citysearch.com - user review - 05/17/2007
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Lower East Side Tenement Museum

Lower East Side Tenement Museum is different from most museums. It's set up on an old tenement musue...
judysbook.com - user review - 03/28/2006
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One of the best museums in the country

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is a life-changing experience. It's hard to picture just what li...
judysbook.com - user review - 03/09/2006
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Tenement Museum

Try to picture a time when you are newly arrived in America. There's little or no work available and...
judysbook.com - user review - 12/30/2005
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Compelling historic slice of New York city life

Spent a fulfilling family afternoon here recently. As soon as you enter this building, rich with history, you taste what it was like for families living in NYC's tenements and stay immersed for the next few...
citysearch.com - user review - 06/07/2005
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LIKE GOING BACK IN TIME

This museum is like going back in time. There's so much information. Worthwhile!
citysearch.com - user review - 11/20/2003
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Interesting

Very interesting place, but still a work in progress. Tour was made extra special by our guide Rose who pointed out an interesting walk of the neigbourhood. A large group would dilute the experience.
citysearch.com - user review - 02/26/2003
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Manhattan real estate

I wasn't as impressed as I'd hoped to be. Maybe because I share a two-bedroom apartment with 3 other people here in NY, I thought that with some paint, light fixtures, and a bathroom, those apartments wouldn't...
citysearch.com - user review - 10/13/2002
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A Different Museum Experience

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is a unique New York institution. They have preserved a tenement building on Orchard Street in its early 20th century state (the walls are crumbling and you can see all the...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/27/2002
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Time Travel

I've had a lot of expectations based on the reviews that I got but they were all exceeded immensely. It's pretty much like going back in time and being able to relive some aspects of your ancestors life. You...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/29/2002
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Great City Perspective - Cheap Price

If you love history, and enjoy learning about the city than you MUST go here. You will get a great perspective on what it was like for yesterday's immigrants to come to NYC and how they lived and worked once...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/24/2002
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Walk through history

A visit here is a must for anyone who calls himself or herself a New Yorker. You think your studio is a tiny, rat-infested cell, wait till you see these places, and how people (and how many people) used to...
citysearch.com - user review - 05/23/2002
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