Tenement Museum

The tenement is located in what is current day Chinatown but the area has undergone many different changes since its beginning. The Dutch West Indies Company first settled this area in 1620. The company found the land to be a three hundred acre farm. About two hundred year

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The stories that each apartment told were different, but yet they all rested under a common theme. Shortly after this period the tenements were closed down, never to be re-opened again. There were two major migrations through the late 19th century into the early 20th century. As time went by few adjustments were made to the tenement to better the lives of the people in it. In some cases the women were able to claim six hundred dollars for their husbands disappearance if they claimed that he had died. The second migration, 1880-1920’s, was by Eastern European Jews. The buildings were to b twenty-five feet wide and one hundred feet deep. Often, the men would leave their family behind in search of something better.

The buildings held certain structures and guidelines. Although this sounds very unusual it was a common practice. These builders were the creators of what is known today as the Tenement Museum.

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Immigrants from all over began to make their way to the Lower Eastside to start their new lives. The tenements were five stories, consisting of twenty to twenty-two apartments. This is when the area received its first name, when it was known as “Little Germany”.

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