Tenement Museum and immigrant oral histories

The Tenement Museum at 97 Orchard Street preserves a restored 19th‑century tenement building and offers guided tours based on documented immigrant and migrant resident histories. The museum's programs interpret specific apartments and the lives of named families who lived there, using primary sources such as census records, oral histories, and property documents. The site is frequently cited in accounts of Lower East Side immigrant life and in local lore about New York's settlement patterns.