"Give me your tired, your poor..." Emma Lazarus wrote in her famous poem about immigration back in 1883. The controversies of the past week have put America's current views on immigration to the test, ...

For 35 years, the Lower East Side's Tenement Museum has hewn to a strict methodology for its historical exhibits: It recreates the lives and apartments of families who actually lived in its two ...

It’s one of those nondescript buildings you’d normally walk past without a second glance. The brick on the exterior has survived nearly 150 years of bitter cold and sweltering heat, of floods and ...

The Tenement Museum is a popular destination for tourists who are interested in learning about the history of immigration in the United States. Located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the museum ...

How do you turn a five-floor walk-up that is mostly in ruins into a museum? Preserve it as it was found? Restore its original form? Recreate it to a specific moment in time? The answer is yes to all ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Storms come and create land shifts, trucks crash, and fire damages buildings. Here’s a look at images with lasting impact on people’s lives. One of the most devastating building ...

Take a peek inside 14 Henrietta Street, the Dublin museum dedicated to exploring the city's social history. A former tenement house in Dublin City has been opened to the public as a museum. Number 14 ...