The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Tenement Museum and New York Academy of Medicine Get New Leaders

Kevin Jennings, former executive director of the Arcus Foundation, was named president of the museum. He will replace Morris Vogel, who has announced plans to retire this summer after nine years at ...
Hyperallergic

Tenement Museum Opens First Exhibition About Black New Yorkers

The recreated tenement room where Rachel and Joseph Moore slept (photo Elaine Velie/Hyperallergic) In 1863, 25- and 35-year-old Black New Yorkers Rachel and Joseph Moore moved into a tenement at Lower ...
The New York Times

Lower East Side Tenement Museum

In an interview, he revealed the Indian ragas, indie movies, comedy shows and museums in the city that stayed with him. By Melena Ryzik As the season of Nutcrackers, Messiahs, Scrooges and Santas ...
OPB

This museum immerses students in U.S. history: ‘You can smell it, touch it, see it’

Kat Lloyd stands in the dim light on the first-floor staircase of a dilapidated, New York City tenement building. Before her: a tour of wide-eyed teens on a field trip from their high school in Queens ...