When he moved into his East Village apartment in 1974, Richard Hell was 24 years old and playing bass in Television, the ...

On Third Avenue between East 74th and 75th Streets, a lone five-story tenement at 1301 Third Avenue is refusing to budge, ...

The Tenement Museum is replacing the stories of Irish, Italian, Jewish and German immigrants who actually occupied these dingy apartments with fictional tales and others who never lived there.

"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 ...

For more than 30 years, the Tenement Museum shared stories about the people who once lived in the building it now owns. But that meant that some groups—particularly Black New Yorkers—were excluded, as ...

The morning began like any other at the Fort Bonifacio housing tenement in Taguig City, Philippines, just outside Manila. Caged roosters crowed on the rooftop. Seven floors below, bristles from an ...