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Sep 21
Little Amal is coming to the Tenement Museum! On September 28th at 1pm, the Lower East Side joins Little Amal’s traveling festival of art and hope – with her walk starting right in front of the Tenement Museum Visitor Center and Shop.
A 12-ft puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl, Amal has traveled 5,000 miles, visiting countries around the world highlighting the refugee experience. As part of her journey, Amal is visiting NYC – a global city connecting centuries of immigrant, migrant, & refugee history
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Connected by their experiences as refugees, Amal is welcomed by Victoria Confino, a Sephardic Jewish teenager who immigrated to the US in 1913 and lived with her family at 97 Orchard Street. Victoria will share stories with Amal before sending her new friend over to Chinatown.
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Jul 23
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Our long-planned construction project is beginning on one of our historic tenements, 97 Orchard Street, preserving it for the next generation of visitors.

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Our beloved building will be undergoing vital restoration work to focus on the care needed for its walls, floors, roof, and the installation of a new HVAC system that will provide improved climate control for our visitors and staff.

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But the stories of tenement residents, everyday people starting anew in the city, are an important part of the history we all share.

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Jul 21
Explore tenement life beyond the tenements! For the first time ever, one of our tours will take you to visit the Rogarshevsky family's 1910s apartment outside of our 97 Orchard tenement building.
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Visit their tenement apartment recreated inside the historic Manny Cantor Center on our tour, Day in the Life: 1911, a special combination apartment and walking tour that enables you to explore the neighborhood through the eyes of the Rogarshevskys.
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The Manny Cantor Center is the home of the @EdAlliance, which has served Lower Manhattan since 1888. Originally founded as a Jewish settlement house, the @EdAlliance provided access to recreational and educational spaces, classes, and programs to service new immigrants. Image
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Mar 19, 2021
In November of 1909, 20,000 garment workers took to the streets in the largest strike of women up to that point. Many wore massive hats decorated with feathers and flowers that carried more meaning than simply being fashionable.
“We’re human, all of us girls, and we’re young. We like new hats as well as any other young women,” said Clara Lemlich in an interview with the New York Evening Journal, following her speech that had inspired what would come to be known as the Uprising of 20,000.
The hats were a symbol of their labor having value and their lives existing beyond the confines of the factory, and the Uprising was just the beginning.
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Feb 10, 2021
The Female Trading Association was a cooperative grocery store established by an association of one hundred Black female entrepreneurs in 1841, located on the Lower East Side in New York. #BlackHistoryMonth
At the time, Black women had to create formal and informal alliances across the city to support themselves and each other, as they were often shut out of the onslaught of manufacturing jobs that white women had access to during the 19th century.

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Located at 157 Baxter St., the store carried everything from dry goods like corn meal, chocolate, and tea to meat and fish to household goods like candles and brooms.

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Sep 18, 2020
Shana Tova! By the early 1900s push cart vendors sold Rosh Hashanah postcards, like the one pictured, for families to wish loved ones and friends Shana Tova, or Happy New Year!
Push cart peddlers sold all kinds of things along Orchard Street, from fruits and vegetables to eye glasses, clothes, and stationary. Perhaps Fannie Rogarshevsky browsed the wares and considered sending a post card. It would have been a new tradition for her, here in New York.
This card was from the Williamsburg Post Card Co in New York, printed circa 1915 in Germany and comes to us from the archives of @ajhsnyc
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