Tenement Talks

Writer Jonathan Soffer will be at the Tenement Museum tomorrow with the dynamic and divisive former mayor (and congressman), Ed Koch, as part of the Tenement Talks series. They will be discussing Soffer's recent biography, Ed Koch and the...

Louise W. Knight, author of the highly praised biography, Jane Addams: Spirit in Action, will be featured in the Tenement Talks series at the Tenement Museum this evening. Knight will be discussing Jane Addams' riveting story - she was...

Tonight's Tenement Talk at the Tenement Museum will feature a twenty minute cut of the documentary The Pigeon Game, by Annie Heringer.  She will present her work in progress, two years in the making, about the dying breed of...

What looks to be a mouth-watering panel on “LES Food Fusion” with local chefs/business owners Eddie Huang (BaoHaus, Xiao Ye), Christina Seid (Chinatown Ice Cream Factory) and Mark Israel (The Doughnut Plant) is taking place tonight at the Tenement...

Our weekly look at upcoming happenings on the Lower East Side.  If you have a neighborhood event you would like us to post, please email us here. Thursday, July 22: The Educational Alliance will host "Full Metal Mamas," a comedy...

Author Cait Murphy will be speaking about her latest book, Scoundrels in Law: The Trials of Howe & Hummel, Lawers to the Gangsters, Cops, Starlets, and Rakes Who Made the Gilded Age, at the Tenement Museum tomorrow night as...

Filmmaker and historian Suzanne Wasserman will be at the Tenement Museum this evening for the museum's Tenement Talks Series. Wasserman will screen her latest film, Sweatshop Cinderella, a short documentary about the fascinating life of the Jewish immigrant writer,...

Author Daniel Okrent will be discussing his latest book, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, in an interview with Kevin Baker at the Tenement Museum as part of their Tenement Talks series tomorrow evening. Okrent (the first...

Make sure to catch Rebecca Lepkoff at the Tenement Museum tonight (as mentioned in this morning's News Links). Lepkoff has been photographing life on the Lower East Side since the 1930's and she is celebrating the paperback release of...

Tomorrow night's Tenement Talk at the Tenement Museum will feature actors from America-in-Play, a theatre collective "that immerses artists in a neglected legacy of American plays and popular entertainment." Based on nineteenth century life, “Crossing Over” is...