Attraction

Lower East Side Tenement Museum

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Address: EE
Price range: $$$

East Village & Lower East Side, New York City

The museum preserves tenement flats as they were lived in by immigrant families from the 1860s onward, and is visited only on guided tours of a single building and its restored apartments. Book ahead; tours are small and sell out.

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Information source: NYC Tourism + Conventions

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