EVENING PROGRAMS

about the tenement Museum

how to visit the Museum

The Tenement Museum preserves the history of immigration through the personal experiences of those who built lives in and around 97 Orchard Street. Located in the heart of Manhattan’s Lower East Side – an immigrant portal for 200 years – the museum was home to an estimated 7,000 people from over 20 nations between 1863 and 1935.

The Tenement Museum is available by guided tour only. Group reservations are available during daytime museum hours or in the evenings when the museum is closed to the public. Each tour lasts 1-2 hours, depending on the program. Groups can choose from building tours, walking tours, and full-tenement tours that are offered exclusively in the evenings.

Museum educators take visitors on guided tours of apartments that recreate immigrant life in the 19th and 20th centuries. In combination with building tours, our walking tours explore immigrant life in an ever-changing neighborhood. These programs offer a glimpse of the past, and insights into current debates about immigration, cultural identity, discrimination, and more.

Evening events can include multiple programs and can be scheduled in conjunction with group discussions, receptions or dinner programs. A minimum of 15 people is required. Larger groups may be divided for building tours due to space restrictions.

The Tenement Museum is a National Historic Landmark and a National Trust Historic Site.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum | Evening Group Reservations: Contact Alana Rosen at 646-795-4743 or [email protected] | www.tenement.org

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Programs Each program is led by a museum educator and visits a different area of the tenement building or neighborhood.

tour

the building Hard Times Discover how immigrants survived economic depressions at 97 Orchard Street between 1863 and 1935. Visit the restored homes of the German-Jewish Gumpertz family, whose patriarch disappeared during the Panic of 1873, and the Italian-Catholic Baldizzi family, who lived through the Great Depression.

Sweatshop Workers Pay a visit to the Levine family’s garment workshop and the Rogarshevskys’ Sabbath table at the turn of the 20th century, when the Lower East Side was the most densely populated place in the world. Explore how immigrants balanced work, family, and religion at a time of great change.

Irish Outsiders Experience the heart of the immigrant saga through the music of Irish America, then tour the restored home of the Moore family, Irish-Catholic immigrants who left their home in the Five Points to start a new life in Kleindeutschland. Explore how this family dealt with being ‘outsiders’ in 97 Orchard and how they coped with the death of their child in 1869.

Shop Life Family-run stores filled the lower level of 97 Orchard for over a century. Visit the 1870s German saloon of John and Caroline Schneider, and use interactive technology to trace the stories of turn-of-the-century kosher butchers Israel and Goldie Lustgarten, 1930s auctioneer Max Marcus, and 1970s undergarment discounters Frances and Sidney Meda.

Exploring 97 Orchard Street

Exclusive evening program

This behind-the-scenes tour explores the architectural layers of history buried in the tenement’s physical fabric. Learn how legislation and fashion spurred landlords and tenants to leave their mark on the building, and how paint experts, wallpaper conservators, and urban archeologists “read” these layers to uncover 97 Orchard’s stories.

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WALK

THE NEIGHBORHOOD Outside the Home See the Lower East Side through the eyes of the immigrants who have lived here for 150 years. Discover the towering Jarmulowsky Bank building, where immigrants deposited (and eventually lost) their life savings; the Forward building, where socialists fought for worker rights; and PS 42, where generations of immigrants learned how to be “American.” Available in spring and summer only. This tour does not enter any buildings.

Then and Now For generations of immigrants, the Lower East Side wasn’t just a place to find a cheap home. It was also where they learned how to start a business, build a congregation, educate their children, and lobby the government. Discover the fascinating history of this neighborhood and find out why it’s such an ever-changing mix of the old and the new. Available in spring and summer only. This tour does not enter any buildings.

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THE RESIDENTS Victoria Confino Visit the apartment of a Greek Sephardic family and meet a costumed interpreter playing 14-year-old Victoria Confino, who lived in the tenement in 1916. Visitors take on the role of newly arrived immigrants and ask Victoria questions about adjusting to life on the Lower East Side.

LIVE! At the Tenement

Exclusive evening program “Meet”the residents of 97 Orchard Street. Actors playing characters from the Moore (1869), Levine (1897), Rogarshevsky (1915), and Baldizzi (1935) families talk to visitors about living in our historic tenement. Learn how culture and community affected how people lived, what resources they had available to them in a new country, and how they might have made a comfortable space for themselves in difficult conditions.

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THE FOODS Tastings at the Tenement Exclusive evening program

Pay virtual visits to 12 diverse purveyors, sampling neighborhood favorites such as Chinese dumplings, Dominican fried plantains, Asian-fusion cream puffs, bialys and more. This virtual tour reveals some of the little-known histories of favorite American foods, and reveals ways in which immigrants and native-born citizens collectively created an American culture. Lower East Side Tenement Museum | Evening Group Reservations: Contact Alana Rosen at 646-795-4743 or [email protected] | www.tenement.org

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Private Events All of our tours can be paired with a private reception for a unique museum experience. Event spaces can accommodate up to 120 people and are available in our visitor center at 103 Orchard Street. For larger events, groups can rent out the first and second floors, which include all three event spaces as well as our shop space.

Floor Plan Lower East Side Tenement Museum | Evening Group Reservations: Contact Alana Rosen at 646-795-4743 or [email protected] | www.tenement.org

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Event spaces

The Hester Room accommodates 15 people for a lecture or 20 people for a standing reception. Computer, projection system, and internet access are available.

The Orchard Room accommodates 65 people for a seated lecture or 75-80 people for a standing reception. Computer, projection system, and internet access are available.

The Delancey Room accommodates 30 people for a seated lecture or 40 people for a standing reception. The Delancey Room also features a prep kitchen equipped with a microwave, refrigerator/freezer, dishwasher, and convection oven. Computer, projection system, and internet access are also available.

The museum shop space features a 180-degree view of the Lower East Side, and includes access to our private theater space. The shop accommodates 82 people for a seated lecture, or 100 people for a standing reception. Computer, projection system, and internet access are also available.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum | Evening Group Reservations: Contact Alana Rosen at 646-795-4743 or [email protected] | www.tenement.org

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Group Dining tours & hors d’oeuvres Beverages and hors d’oeuvres are available for private group receptions. Menu options feature a variety of foods from local Lower East Side businesses, including Italian meats and cheeses, Chinese dumplings, and other appetizers. Groups are also invited to provide their own refreshments using our list of preferred vendors. Please contact us for a list of food and beverage options.

tastings at the tenement Our Tastings at the Tenement program offers visitors a truly unique dining experience. Groups can eat a family-style dinner at the museum comprised of foods from the Lower East Side, while learning about the history of various dishes and how these foods helped shape American cuisine.

LOCAL RESTAURANTS The Lower East Side features an eclectic mix of restaurants inspired by the neighborhood’s immigrant past. Below are just a few of the establishments that cater to group bookings.

Café Katja

Golden Unicorn

Well-crafted, Austrian comfort food. 79 Orchard Street 212-219-9545 cafekatja.com

A neighborhood favorite for Cantonese-style cuisine. 18 East Broadway 212-941-0911 goldenunicornrestaurant.com

Katz’s Deli

Sauce

Classic New York City delicatessen serving famous pastrami sandwiches. 205 East Houston Street 212-254-2246 katzsdelicatessen.com

Traditional Italian cuisine made of local, seasonal and sustainable ingredients. 78-84 Rivington Street 212-420-7700 saucerestaurant.com

Grey Lady

Schiller’s Liquor Bar

Nantucket-style seafood on the Lower East Side. 77 Delancey Street 646-580-5239 greyladynyc.com

Neighborhood restaurant with a continental menu. 131 Rivington Street 212-260-4555 schillersny.com

Lower East Side Tenement Museum | Evening Group Reservations: Contact Alana Rosen at 646-795-4743 or [email protected] | www.tenement.org

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How to Book Please contact Alana Rosen to book a programmed event for your group at 646-795-4743 or [email protected]. Please provide contact information (name and phone number or e-mail address), group size, and preferred tour(s). Evening groups must book at least three weeks in advance. Reservations are accepted up to a year in advance.

Location The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is located at 103 Orchard Street, between Broome Street and Delancey Street.

By subway

E 5th St

F to Delancey Street, J/M/Z to Essex Street, or B/D to Grand Street 2nd Ave

By bus

1st Ave

M15 to Delancey and Allen Streets, M9 to Delancey and Essex Streets E 3rd St

Parking

E 2nd St

On-street parking is available. Two hours of free parking are available from 8am-10pm in the parking lot on Broome Street between Norfolk and E 1st St Suffolk Streets, with museum validation. E. Houston St

Bowery Z

Delancey St

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Suffolk St

Norfolk St

Allen St

Grand St

Chrystie St

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Broome St

Grand St

Elizabeth St

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Delancey St

Broome St

Mott St

Eldridge St

Rivington St

Orchard St

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Kenmare St

Forsyth St

Chrystie St Rivington St

Essex St

Stanton St

Stanton St

Ludlow St

Mott St

Elizabeth St

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Hester St

Hester St

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