"Give me your tired, your poor..." Emma Lazarus wrote in her famous poem about immigration back in 1883. The controversies of the past week have put America's current views on immigration to the test, ...

Learn about tenements, their role in urban development, historical origins, and the legislative acts that shaped modern ...

In New York City, rapid growth and the imposition of the New York City street grid both played major roles in the look, density, and availability of housing for New Yorkers. Tenements originated from ...

Kat Lloyd stands in the dim light on the first-floor staircase of a dilapidated, New York City tenement building. Before her: a tour of wide-eyed teens on a field trip from their high school in Queens ...

For 35 years, the Lower East Side's Tenement Museum has hewn to a strict methodology for its historical exhibits: It recreates the lives and apartments of families who actually lived in its two ...

How do you turn a five-floor walk-up that is mostly in ruins into a museum? Preserve it as it was found? Restore its original form? Recreate it to a specific moment in time? The answer is yes to all ...

Since its founding in 1988, the Tenement Museum’s walking tours of the Lower East Side have told the stories of the European, Chinese, and Puerto Rican families who made their homes in the ...

In this episode we tour three apartments located within the same historic tenement building in Hell's Kitchen, New York City.

Other Work by Architect: Row houses, tenements and flats buildings in Park Slope, row house blocks such as the 600 block of 76th Street, also Senator Street in Bay Ridge. The story: Sunset Park was ...

It’s one of those nondescript buildings you’d normally walk past without a second glance. The brick on the exterior has survived nearly 150 years of bitter cold and sweltering heat, of floods and ...

On the third floor of an 1890s tenement building, the walk-up apartment has high ceilings, wood floors, and a big kitchen.