Tenement Museum

Today I visited the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side. I had never been there before. We went through "The Moores" tour, which highlights how a family of Irish immigrants that really lived there might have lived in 1869. I was impressed with the place. The building was built in 1867 but has not been lived in since 1935, so it is really crazy in there, you can really see how people lived, and how New York has continually reinvented itself. Our guide talked about how back in the 1860s there was a strong anti-immigrant sentiment and even a news organization and politicans that spread the ill will to the masses. Imagine that.