A protected tenement in the new East Village Historic District.

What Would a Tenement Museum Look Like in 2064?

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 8, 2014

If a tenement museum were to open in 50 years in New York City, what would it look like and what it would say about the politics of housing for immigrants? Annie Polland, the Senior Vice President for Programs & Education at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, imagines the future of housing for the poor and she discusses the politics and history of housing and social services for poor immigrants in New York.

 

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