Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

Relish the twin LES gate mural at the corner of Orchard and Delancey while you still can.  That’s right, 103 Orchard Street is already under the knife, and will soon gain a snazzy sidewalk shed. Once renovations are complete, however, the building will house a new visitors/educational facility for the Tenement Museum, officially dubbed the [...]

Not too long ago, Jim Joe, the street writer with two first names, vandalized the facade of 103 Orchard Street.  It seems as though the city, but our neighborhood in particular, has seen an uptick in such tags.  They’re everywhere – in subways, on scaffolding, street furniture, and building facades.

A couple weeks ago, we touched on the building history of 103 Orchard Street.  Today, the focus is on those who lived there.  A residential history, as it were. The construction of 103, 105, and 107 Orchard coincided with the arrival of large numbers of Eastern-European immigrants to the Lower East Side.  Indeed, most of [...]

We are pleased to introduce this post as the first of hopefully many contributions by the fine folks at the Tenement Museum. [Photo via Keiko Niwa] Standing across the street from the corner tenement at 103 Orchard today, there is little evidence suggestive of the immense changes it has undergone since it was erected in [...]