6 fascinating facts you probably didn’t know about NYC’s Tenement Museum

Orchard Street, the eight-block stretch of the Lower East Side named as Time Out’s coolest street in NYC this year , has undergone a host of changes in its history. Often, New York City’s street-level history gets forgotten—demolished, paved over and deemed too small to make history books. But one museum is dedicated to remembering the stories of this street and its people .

The Tenement Museum , located inside a real New York City tenement, documents life here from the 1860s to the 1980s. It shares the stories of working class New Yorkers inside their actual homes. Whether you’re a born-and-raised New Yorker or a visitor, this museum should be on your must-visit list. We sat down with the museum’s president Annie Polland to talk about the museum and pick up some interesting facts