lower east side tenement museum
i went to the lower east side tenament museum today. i have not been to the museum in about 2 years and figured it would be time to pay it another visit. this "museum" is just composed of guided tours through a restored tenement on a variety of topics. i did not book a tour in advance, so i attended the tour titled the moores: an irish family in america since the timing worked out the best for this tour. this was the smallest tour i have been on; there was only one other family of four who happened to be from ireland. our guide was fantastic and very chatty. each tour is supposed to be 1 hour although our guide happily talked for about 1 1/2 hours. i think the moores lived in the building the earliest of any of the tours that i have attended. they moved into the building around 1868. most of the other ones are around the end of the nineteenth century. this tour focused on the health, building and sanitation issues regarding this time period. it discussed som...