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Listenin’ to the City CCNY/CWE

The aim of this group is to explore ‘listening’ as part of a journalistic practice. Our members have actively listened to local organizations throughout the city and work on a digital project to document their experiences through expository and creative writing, audio/video recordings and photography.

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  • The Tenement Museum is amazing

    Posted by Andy Doherty on May 15, 2024 at 5:10 pm

    Taking a trip to the past today is something we all dream of. That dream is a reality

    anyone can experience today on the Lower East Side of Manhattan at the Tenement

    Museum. Located at 97 Orchard Street in the heart of the Lower East Side, the Tenement

    Museum is a place where it’s still the 1860’s in New York City. The museum is an actual

    tenement building which looks exactly as it did when immigrant families lived in it during

    the 1860’s. The museum was an abandoned tenement, that sat vacant for decades until it

    was converted into a museum in 1988. The museum shows what cramped apartment life

    was like for newly arrived immigrants in New York City. Visitors can see the struggle

    firsthand of New Yorkers acclimating to life after emigrating, telling a familiar New York

    story that continues in the city to this day. Tours take visitors through each small

    apartment, and right before your eyes, you are transported to a time where the

    familiar struggle of new arrivals in the city is told. One of the museum’s guides, Zina, says

    “the museum shows firsthand how things considered basics today like indoor plumbing

    and electricity, were not even imagined in the everyday life of a newly arrived family in New

    York City”.  The museum is open seven days a week, with tours given all throughout the day,

    beginning at 10AM.

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