The lower east side of Manhattan, thought of as a gateway to America, is the home of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Located at 97 Orchard Street, the building was the first homestead of urban working class immigrants; the building was home to about 7,000 immigrants from 20 nations between 1863 and 1935. Visitors tour restored apartments and learn about the lives of actual residents, from the German Jewish who lived through the Great Panic of 1874, to Eastern European Jews that resided there in the early 1900s, to the Italian Catholics from Sicily during the Great Depression.

You will enjoy a duo membership, which includes free admission to programs, invitations to events, Museum Shop discounts, and discounted admission to the New York Historical Society and Merchant's House Museum.