When Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives in 1890, New York City’s Lower East Side was the epicenter of American tenement life. At one point, almost three hundred thousand people were ...

The opening of the Hotel on Rivington in 2004 underscored the Lower East Side’s transformation from a hub of bargain-basement ...

I moved to the Lower East Side in the Spring of 1961 and was immediately struck by the housing conditions. Most of the blocks are covered by narrow five-story tenements, each housing from ten to ...

There's no better way to explore these stories than with Viator's walking tour of Tenement History and Immigrant Life in the Lower East Side. The experience takes you to some of the most ...

a young guide with the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. I’ve come here on a tour of the museum’s two buildings to learn more about the history of this neighbourhood, because the Lower East ...