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.
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.
“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. 
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.
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.
