There is a nondescript, brick building at 97 Orchard Street. Without signs telling you what it is, you would most certainly walk by without giving it any notice, yet it possesses something so unique to New York and indicative of the city's individual essence that it could be argued that it represents the soil from which so much that is New York has sprouted. This is The Tenement Museum.
In the 1980s, 97 Orchard Street was a building long-since without residents that had survived since the 1930s solely by a line of merchants and storefronts that had inhabited its ground floor for the past fifty some-odd years. Sealed off from the outside world, the five residential floors above became a time capsule containing clues and remnants of the stories of some of the nearly 7,000 immigrants who passed through this tenement building, calling it home as they struggled to make America their country.
In the 1980s, 97 Orchard Street was a building long-since without residents that had survived since the 1930s solely by a line of merchants and storefronts that had inhabited its ground floor for the past fifty some-odd years. Sealed off from the outside world, the five residential floors above became a time capsule containing clues and remnants of the stories of some of the nearly 7,000 immigrants who passed through this tenement building, calling it home as they struggled to make America their country.
- 2/15/2014
- by C. Jefferson Thom
- www.culturecatch.com
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