The story of the Irish immigrants in America laid out at New York’s Tenement Museum

Unique Lower East Side historic facility tells us the story of the Moore family through their hardships, home, and belongings

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The Lower East Side's Tenement Museum

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There a very few windows and no lighting in the apartment, there is just candles and it gets very dark. You can be a little freaked out by the music and darkness in the front room.  However, this was a great experience and it just shows you how the Moore family had to live all those years ago.

After their daughter Agnes died Bridget passed away at the young age of 36 and by this time the Irish were in when the Immigration Act of 1924 was brought in.

The Lower East Side is one of the longest and oldest neighbourhoods in the city. It has long been a lower-class worker neighbourhood and often a poor and ethnically diverse section of New York. As well as Irish, Italians, Poles, Ukrainians, and other ethnic groups, it once had a sizeable German population and known as Little Germany (Klein Deutschland) and today it is a predominantly Puerto Rican and Dominican community.

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