Poverty: Beyond the Museum

[display_podcast] The Tenement Museum, like many other museums, identifies itself as an organization meant to educate about the past and infer for the future. Its tours not only reflect a long history of immigration on the Lower East Side, but also serve as a way to provoke thought about the continued role that immigration plays …

Modern-Day Tenements

  While it may be hard to believe, tenements in the Lower East Side – home to immigrants from a variety of nations for over 200 years – still exist today. As reported by CNN’s Poppy Harlow in the above video, immigration from China to America continues to increase, and often, the first stop for …