Tenement Museum
History Museum · New York, New York
Two Lower East Side tenement buildings — 97 and 103 Orchard Street — preserved as the homes of roughly fifteen thousand immigrants from over twenty countries between the 1860s and the 1930s. Number 97 was sealed up in 1935 when its landlord could not afford new fire codes and stood empty for fifty years, which is why the apartments survived. ⚠ IT IS GUIDED-TOUR-ONLY AND THERE IS NO WAY TO WANDER IN.
103 Orchard Street, New York, New York, 10002, United States
⚠ GUIDED-TOUR-ONLY. There is NO general admission and no way to see the apartments without a booked tour; groups are small and they SELL OUT weeks ahead for weekends and holidays. Each tour is a separate ticket covering a different building — 97 Orchard Street for the pre-war stories, 103 Orchard Street for the post-war ones. The visitor centre, exhibition and shop at 103 Orchard are FREE to enter. Neighbourhood walking tours run seasonally. ⚠ HOURS AND PRICES NOT VERIFIED — book on tenement.org.