After more than four years, the "Notes from the Tenement" blog has moved! Please visit us at http://www.tenement.org/blog/ for the latest posts. You can continue to visit this address to view p...
The historic shops at 97 Orchard Street were busy places, crammed full of people and goods. To recreate these environments for our "Shop Life" exhibit, we've done a bit of shopping ourselves, col...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/08/shopping-for-history.html
Summer might bring great weather and shorter work hours, but it can be pretty rough on our bodies. Despite modern medicine and simple solutions found at the local drugstore, sometimes you can�...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/08/home-remedies-from-back-in-day.html
It's been exactly two months since we posted our last update on the "Shop Life" exhibit, and things are moving along quickly! The dust, plywood and puzzling artifacts have been removed; in their...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-shop-comes-to-life-at-97-orchard.html
This post explores the legislation behind the design of tenement houses, and how changes in regulations can be seen at 97 Orchard Street. The Tenement Museum's “Hard Times” tour visits two a...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-room-with-legally-mandated-view.html
Like generations of New Yorkers and tourists before me, I made my annual summer pilgrimage to the Coney Island Boardwalk two weeks ago to eat a hot dog at Nathan’s, smell the salty air and take...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/07/coney-island-through-photographers-lens.html
Humans of New York , a self-proclaimed “photographic census of New York City”, has become a social media sensation over the past few months. Brandon Stanton, the photographer behind the ambit...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/07/humans-of-new-york-turn-of-century.html
This post was written for the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s Blog From Battery Place , and originally published on June 14, 2012, in anticipation of their free weekly screenings of classic Mel Br...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/07/all-about-mel-brooks-q-with-film.html
Robin Shulman became interested in food at age 17, when she witnessed how a garden transformed her own community on 4th Street in Manhattan. Once a destination for heroin addicts, the corner o...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/07/tenement-talks-presents-eat-city.html
Ilse Bing is one of the many remarkable photographers included in A Short History of Photography, an exhibition currently on view at the International Center for Photography (ICP). Born in Germa...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/07/ilse-bings-new-york.html
Recently, we welcomed a group of local teachers to “Becoming American: Using Food Culture to Teach Immigration,” A professional development workshop helping teachers introduce the theme o...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/07/teachers-go-back-to-school-at-tenement.html
“The American dream, that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement…” -- The E...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/07/american-dream-past-present-and-future.html
Summertime made an impressive entrance this year with a serious heat wave. Nonetheless, we're excited for the sunshine and well-deserved rest that comes with the most highly anticipated season ...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/06/greetings-from-new-york.html
The Lower East Side has been inspiring artists, writers and filmmakers for years, so it should come as no surprise that there's an annual Lower East Side Film Festival located right here in th...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/06/lower-east-side-on-film-fortune-writer.html
As you may know, construction workers are busy creating "Shop Life", a new exhibit at the Tenement Museum which will trace the commercial history of 97 Orchard Street. Educator Abigail Ladd fou...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/06/familys-work.html
We've already had a taste of hot weather here in New York this spring, prompting city dwellers to switch on the air conditioning and grab whatever's coldest in the refrigerator. Of course, hea...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/06/surviving-summer-in-city.html
Questions posed by our visitors lead to great conversations. Occasionally, we'll post a great question that's frequently asked, along with the answer, to give you a bit of back story on our exhi...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/06/great-question-which-objects-belonged.html
Recently, a group of our costumed interpreters gathered to trade notes on their experiences portraying Irish immigrant Bridget Moore, who resided at 97 Orchard Street in 1868. Our “Meet Bridge...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-real-bridget-moore-please-stand-up.html
As construction progresses on our "Shop Life" exhibit, the ground floor rooms at 97 Orchard Street are evolving day by day. This phase of construction isn't quite as dramatic as others have been ...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/05/shop-life-glimpse-of-our-progress.html
With construction of our "Shop Life" exhibit well underway, it's time to start thinking about interior design for the re-created home of John and Caroline Schneider. The Schneiders ran a German b...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/05/re-creating-home-decor-c1872.html
Last month, the time-space continuum experienced a blip when two former residents of 97 Orchard Street packed their bags and headed down to Delaware where they dined with George Washington. Le...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/05/anachronists-just-wanna-have-fun.html
Mother's Day is just around the corner. How did this tradition begin? Surprisingly, its origins have nothing to do with flower arrangements or breakfast in bed. In fact, the holiday originally c...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/05/notes-on-history-of-mothers-day.html
Straight to the point, peeps, here’s the deal: Lower East Tenement Museum alongside 39 other hopefuls is fiercely competing for the Partners in Preservation ("PIP") prize of over $200,000 for r...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/05/we-do-what-we-do-because-history.html
We've recently shown you some of the more unusual finds we've excavated from the long-sealed fireplaces at 97 Orchard Street. Some of the larger objects we've uncovered--like a toy wagon wheel a...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/05/97-orchard-streets-smallest-artifacts.html
This is the second of two posts by author Thai Jones exploring the history of how working New Yorkers have struggled--and fought--to make ends meet. Thai will join us for a Tenement Talk on May ...
http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-other-half-paid-part-2.html