The New York Times1mon
Tenement Houses, and How to Build Them.
To the Editor of the New-York Times ... similar calamities are not more request in this City. Such is the construction of most of our tenement-houses, that in case of fire, as great or even ...
Irish Central13d
How Kenmare Street in New York City got its name
The story of Kenmare Street in downtown New York City is one of famine, enforced emigration, New York tenements, politics, and how a kid from the slums of the 'Five Points' got to name a street in ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency4y
New York’s Tenement Museum lays off 76 employees amid indefinite closure
(JTA) — The Tenement Museum, which tells the stories of Jewish and other immigrants who lived on New York City’s Lower East Side, announced that it is laying off its tour guides and other part ...
New York Post11d
Site of century-old synagogue to be torn down – and hundreds of historic NYC landmarks face same risk: advocates
The structure at 256 East 4th St. was erected in 1925 as a synagogue for the Lemberger Congregation – named for its native city of what ... as seen in a New York Municipal Archive photo circa ...
Tennis6y
Destination Tennis: Tenement Museum, New York
The Tenement Museum focuses on America's urban immigrant history by telling the stories of 97 Orchard Street. Built on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1863, this tenement apartment building was ...
‘Bunny’ Review: Manic NYC East Village Tenement Comedy Goes Off The Wall In Search Of Laughs And Gets Them – SXSW
One of the unexpected pleasures of this year’s vast SXSW slate of movies is Bunny, a kind of zany comic throwback to extreme indie New York City-centric movies that find a manic energy and rhythm that ...
Tennis7y
Destination Tennis: Tenement Museum, New York
The Tenement Museum focuses on America's urban immigrant history by telling the stories of 97 Orchard Street. Built on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1863, this tenement apartment building was ...