Tenement Museum

The New York Tenement Museum

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I've been time traveling, firstly by having lunch at Russ and Daughters Cafe in Orchard Street, a surprisingly modest and authentic Kosher diner which serves "breakfast martinis" as well as caviar blinis, smoked fish and bagels, followed by the Tenement Museum, further down the street. I had almost given up on the museum because it is always so hard to get tickets and anyway I never liked museum "interpreters" telling me what to make of a place. But it wasn't just good, it was marvelous, and moving, and made all the moreso by the fact that I went there with a friend I had not seen since June, 1975, when we were at school together in Los Angeles.

See what's on at the New York Tenement Museum