Tenement Museum - Lower East Side, NY

Mike Gilliam’s visit to the Tenement Museum in the Lower East Side.

The Tenement Museum preserves the history of immigration through the personal accounts of those who built lives in the Lower East Side. Visitors can view restored apartments from the 19th and 20th centuries, walk the historic neighborhood, and interact with residents to learn the stories of generations of immigrants who helped shape the American experience.

The museum is available by guided tour only. Each tour focuses on a specific theme and takes visitors to a different area of the building or neighborhood.

Show: Arts in the City
Aired: July 2015

[lavendersunset]

my history class is learning about this section in US history. I wasn't assigned to watch this, this topic is just so fascinating

[bluedancelilly]

I visited this museum last summer. Wonderful place. Loved it. Worth the visit for anyone interested in urban history.

[illwillillwill]

Did my internship here as a young teen and it still remains with me

[Beck-Stein]

This is really cool to preserve history. So easy to bash historic buildings down in the name of progress. Something about preservation that is appealing.

[chocolategranolabar]

i was assigned to watch this for school lol

[nietzschesghost]

I came to this video after re-watching "Once Upon a Time in America." It's amazing how the tenement they show in that movie is nearly identical to this one.

[maryhadnot]

Movies like A Tree Grows In Brooklyn shows the family living in tenements and the Bowery Boys even On the Waterfront.

[ericgregory]

Poor people in Manhattan dreamed of the middle class spacious apartments of the once elegant West Bronx with lush parkland, the elegant Grand Concourse that was magnificent up until the 1960s. Those who achieved success moved up to the West Bronx. Those who achieved status moved to the concourse to live among the more established and wealthier German Jews.

[tertur]

That must be the privilege we hear so much about.

[susiemcd]

Fantastic video, very informative! Make me very grateful for our home.

[joseroman]

Lived in the 80, s on 179 orchard st. in one of those buildings, it was a terrible experience

[derekh]

The tenements where modelled on Glasgow tenements which where slums too

[dxmbidiots]

Well nice to see y’all if you here from Mrs.Fordhurt!-Ciara

[MyPaul]

I was born in Brooklyn 1951 and I grew up in a tenement I would have been better off living in the subway one sink and one
tub for eight families I feel for the early immigrants I was living large compared to them !!!

[Maya-txxq]

The tenements were horribly unsafe. It was so much worse than you can imagine. Learning about it in school right now.

[Nunyabidnuz]

What made us what we are today....with our modern conveniences...

[billgates]

i used to live on baxter street in a building exactly the same as in the video.

[sedecim]

Least we forget how racist immigrants were towards African Americans particularly during the civil war.

[xBrr]

When ur not watching dis for school: 20 minutes
When ur watching dis for school: Like 5 minutes

[steveurkel]

Lot of polish in Milwaukee and Dutch in new york