"Give me your tired, your poor..." Emma Lazarus wrote in her famous poem about immigration back in 1883. The controversies of the past week have put America's current views on immigration to the test, ...

For 35 years, the Lower East Side's Tenement Museum has hewn to a strict methodology for its historical exhibits: It recreates the lives and apartments of families who actually lived in its two ...

The Tenement Museum is a popular destination for tourists who are interested in learning about the history of immigration in the United States. Located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the museum ...

How do you turn a five-floor walk-up that is mostly in ruins into a museum? Preserve it as it was found? Restore its original form? Recreate it to a specific moment in time? The answer is yes to all ...

Silverrock Development has filed plans to build a luxury apartment building at 2262 Frederick Douglass Boulevard in South Harlem. Photo via Google Street View According to a permit application with ...

Take a peek inside 14 Henrietta Street, the Dublin museum dedicated to exploring the city's social history. A former tenement house in Dublin City has been opened to the public as a museum. Number 14 ...