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Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Hours of Operation
- Visitors center open Mon. 11:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.; Tues. - Fri. 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.; Sat. - Sun. 10:45 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Please see website for tour schedule.
(212) 431-0233
108 Orchard St
Manhattan, NY 10002
Manhattan, NY 10002
Description
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is contained within an actual six-floor tenement building that housed over 7,000 immigrants between the years of 1863 and 1935. A number of guided tours take visitors through the histories of actual families that lived in the tenement, which now serves as a museum....
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Updated 07/03/2008
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It's seems like a million things happen in New York. As Dennis Leary once said "There's a million great ways to die in this town." What's scary is it's true. From the highly romanticized to the pathetically tragic, you could really bite it any way you ...
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Maybe conditions aren’t nearly as squalid as they once were in LES, but that’s what a museum is for – to thank science for antibiotics! Enjoy the history and thank the maker for giving us the know-how to invent Airborne.