Whats the typical visitor to the Tenement Museum like?
It doesn’t seem like it’s on the “normal” list of sites for tourists, yet we hear it gets pretty packed. Is that because it’s a tenement and those are naturally packed, the Lower East Side hipsters are yearning for historical knowledge, or that Americans have a genuine interest in the immigrant and migrant experience? You wouldn’t believe how busy it gets. The tours sell out all the time and people go nuts when they can’t get in. I mean nuts. One woman asked if she could pay $250 dollars for a private tour with her family because they were only in town for the weekend and hadn’t bothered to make reservations and couldn’t get on a tour. But, no, it’s not so much the hipsters that visit. There’s a lot of visitors from Europe actually, from England in particular, and Germany. Then there are just a lot of older, mostly Jewish, visitors. They’re the best. I love the old people who take the tour away with stories of their lives on the LES or their memories of the Depression. Their stories ar
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