I trace my ancestry back to the Mayflower; writes Andrew S. Dolkart. "Not to the legendary ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth; Massachusetts; in 1620; but to the more prosaic tenement on the southeast corner of East Broadway and Clinton Street named the Mayflower; where my father was born in 1914 to Russian-Jewish immigrants." For Dolkart; the experience of being raised in a tenement became a metaphor for the life that was afforded countless thousands of other immigrant children growing up in Lower Manhattan during the past century and more. Dolkart presents for us a precise and informative biography of a typical tenement house in New York City that became; in 1988; the site for the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Dolkart documents; analyzes; and interprets the architectural and social history of this building at 97 Orchard Street; starting in the 1860s when it was erected; moving on to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the neighborhood started to change; and concluding in the present day as the building is reincarnated as the museum. This book is a lasting tribute to the legacy of immigrants and their children; who were part of the transformation of New York City and the fabric of everyday American urban life.
#2551075 in Books Grub Street 2015-10-19 2015-11-02Original language:English 9.25 x 6.25 x .75l; 1.24 #File Name: 1909808296192 pages
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