Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

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 the [...]

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 the late [...]