When:
November 6, 2017 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Repeats:
November 13, 2017
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Where:
12 Eldridge St
New York, NY 10002
USA
New York, NY 10002
USA
At the Museum at Eldridge Street
The Street Life: Class & Tour Series with Barry Feldman
November 6, 13 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
$20.00 – $70.00
Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldridge Street
This four-part course, which combines two classroom sessions with two Lower East Side walking tours, examines the creative ways the Lower East Side immigrant community responded to the area’s overcrowding, oppressive heat and cold, and poor ventilation. Residents took to the streets as fire escapes became bedrooms, stoops doubled as living rooms, storefronts became social halls, and streets like Hester and Orchard Street presaged contemporary shopping malls. Learn the full story by reserving for all four classes, or pick and choose the…
