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New York’s Tenement Museum lays off 76 employees amid indefinite closure
(JTA) — The Tenement Museum, which tells the stories of Jewish and other immigrants who lived on New York City’s Lower East Side, announced that it is laying off its tour guides and other part ...
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Destination Tennis: Tenement Museum, New York
The Tenement Museum focuses on America's urban immigrant history by telling the stories of 97 Orchard Street. Built on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1863, this tenement apartment building was ...
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In 1964, a white, off-duty policeman killed a Black teenager in New York. That led to the now-infamous Harlem race riots.
After the Harlem race riots of 1935 and 1943 came "New York's Night of Birmingham Horror." Just weeks after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson ...
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Morrie Markoff, Jewish supercentenarian and oldest man in US, dies at 110
Morrie Markoff, who was born to Jewish parents in an East Harlem tenement in 1914 and lived ... Markoff was born in New York City on Jan. 11, 1914, one of four children of Max and Rose Markoff ...
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Destination Tennis: Tenement Museum, New York
The Tenement Museum focuses on America's urban immigrant history by telling the stories of 97 Orchard Street. Built on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1863, this tenement apartment building was ...