Under One Roof Tour Tenement

Our tour guide was fabulous.

Under one roof tour tenement.

Explore an entire tenement building in one tour. These contemporary stories of migration reveal an evolving american identity and explore how neighbors lived alongside one another in a mixed neighborhood like the lower east side. February 18 2019 closing date. We signed up for the tour of three different families living in the tenement apartment in the 50 s 60 s and 70 s and finishing up with the replica of a garment factory.

Gabrielle spear 27 a guide at the tenement museum asked her group of visitors in the under one roof tour which displays the lives of three families from germany puerto rico and china who. Virtually visit the homes of bella epstein whose parents built a new life on the lower east side after the holocaust jose and andy velez whose mother left puerto rico for garment work and the wong siblings whose stories of their mother and other. Came for one tour and stayed for two i visited the tenement museum many years ago but this time was like a whole new experience. This tour carries the immigration story into the present with the experiences of newcomers who settled on the lower east side after world war ii.

We took the under one roof tour. The apartments are set up as those that lived there in various time periods. The under one roof guided tour at 103 orchard street shares the stories of newer families who came to the lower east side after world war ii seeking a new chapter in their lives. Discover stories of lower east side arrivals who lived at 103 orchard street in the 1950s through the 1980s and worked in the neighborhood s garment industry.

Each tour is lead by a historian story teller. The apartments they grew up in between the 1950s and 1970s have been recreated as the newest exhibit in the tenement museum called under one roof it confronts the fact that immigration is and. Adults 29 seniors students college 24. All storyteller s society members are invited to a special virtual tour of under one roof.

The following spaces programs are air conditioned. We were able to see and experience the way immigrants lived after wwi by visiting an apartment that 3 families inhabited at different times. Space is limited to 15 visitors per time slot for under one roof. We did the under one roof tour with nicole.

We were also able to see a small simulation of a garment factory. In 2018 the museum introduced under one roof its first tour to focus on post. There are 4 ways to get from lower east side tenement museum to greenwich village by subway taxi or foot.