AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Close
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
<a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-10326875_ITM" title="Facts and information about Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York City.(antiques)(Brief Article)">Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York City.(antiques)(Brief Article)</a>
Close
Set up an RSS feed that alerts you when new articles from The Magazine Antiques are available.
Frequently asked questions about RSS feeds
Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York City.(antiques)(Brief Article)
"The tenement is the the basic facade in New York, the face of the slums, a slab of tombstone proportions, four to six stories pocked by windows," [1]
Since the mid-nineteenth century successive waves of American immigrants have made their homes in the crowded, dimly lit, and poorly ventilated tenements of New York City's Lower East Side. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is housed in one such building, at 97 Orchard Street. In contrast to many historic buildings that commemorate noted for exemplary architecture and fine decorations, the museum is in a once ordinary, pre-regulation tenement that now interprets the city's working-class and immigrant history from ...
Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
For more facts and information, see all results
- CROSSING DELANCEY; A STREET STEEPED IN HISTORY IS RE-EMERGING AS A HOTBED FOR...
- Magazine article from: Footwear News Rachmansky, Anna September 10, 2001 700+ words
...cats that have nine lives. New York's Orchard Street has lived through numerous...But in the last six years, Orchard Street has been witness to a yet...commercial leasing, said Orchard Street could be the city's "best...
- 97 Orchard Street, New York: Stories of Immigrant Life....
- Magazine article from: Booklist Cooper, Ilene February 15, 2002 700+ words
Granfield, Linda. 97 Orchard Street, New York: Stories of Immigrant Life. Illus. by Arlene...tenement life is re-created in apartments at 97 Orchard Street This is a rather haphazardly organized book, with...
- 97 Orchard Street, New York. (Non-Fiction: Preschool - Grade 6).(Children's...
- Magazine article from: Resource Links Danylko, Shannon December 1, 2001 700+ words
GRANFIELD, Linda 97 Orchard Street, New York Tundra Books, 2001. 56p...settlers to North America (New York City). It shares the...who have all lived at 97 Orchard Street, a crowded tenement on New York's Lower East Side which...
- Granfield, Linda & Alda, Arlene. 97 Orchard Street, New York; stories of...
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Cooper, Rhonda March 1, 2002 700+ words
...in a dark tenement building on New York's Lower East Side humanizes the...information about the Lower East Side--Orchard Street, for example, was originally...Sephardic Jews who immigrated to New York from Greece in 1914, the Rogarshevsky...
- 97 Orchard Street, New York: Stories of Tenement Life.
- Magazine article from: Cobblestone February 1, 2004 700+ words
by Linda Granfield (New York: Tundra Books, 2001, www.tundrabooks.com/) tells the...fascinating, and greatly enhanced by Arlene Alda's photographs, 97 Orchard Street is a wonderful introduction to the realities of tenement life...
- FASHION'S GLAM SLAM : NEW YORK'S ORCHARD STREET, ONCE HOME TO PUSHCARTS, WILL...
- Magazine article from: Daily News Record Dodd, Annmarie Mui,Nelson May 10, 1999 700+ words
...Lower East Side's Orchard Street orgy of stylists...magazine and Timtoum, an Orchard Street boutique, and the...public. While some New York neighborhoods have...food stalls, trendy Orchard Street stages defiles. Three...
- ORCHARD'S NEW CROP.(Orchard Street)
- Magazine article from: WWD Ozzard, Janet May 17, 2000 700+ words
NEW YORK -- For bargain hunters, Orchard Street is Manhattan's...of merchandise to Orchard Street, with prices that...residential loft at 18 Orchard Street recently sold for...trendiest block in New York -- although it...
- 97 Orchard Street.
- Magazine article from: Cobblestone February 1, 2004 700+ words
...Have you ever visited New York City and seen the Statue...Heritage Trail--97 Orchard Street. At this address...Press to publish The New York Times Guide for Immigrants...Tenement Museum, 90 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002, or go...
- Widmer, Eleanor. Up from Orchard Street.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Booklist Sundborg, Laurie August 1, 2005 700+ words
...Widmer, Eleanor. Up from Orchard Street. Sept. 2005. 390p. Bantam...0-385-80400-6). Orchard Street becomes an iconic address...neighborhood characters that makes Orchard Street a vibrant tableau of New York's Lower East Side. A...
- NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S ORCHARD STREET; WHILE THERE ARE SOME SIMILARITIES TO THE...
- Magazine article from: WWD Feitelberg, Rosemary May 20, 1999 700+ words
NEW YORK -- In between the...reflects the old New York. It has a historical...cabaret lounge at 167 Orchard Street by September. Construction...and a section of Orchard Street is still closed...garde styles. The New York market has been...
Source: HighBeam Research, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York City.(antiques)(Brief...