Visitors will participate in an orientation session using tactile models of our historic tenement as well as architectural features before going on a tour that will include touch objects, braille materials, and verbal description. The tour will be an hour and a half long, followed by a reception featuring local Lower East Side foods.

TICKETS ARE FREE
All are welcome, but space is limited, so reservations are required.
Tickets are made available one month prior to each event.
To make a reservation, email ezeira@tenement.org, or call 877-975-3786

Hard Times

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

2nd Floor - Recommended Ages 8 and up.