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Where Time Stands Still

New York City
aught in a time warp, the front hall of 97 Orchard Street
looks much like it did 66 years ago.
Cast-iron stairs, a tin ceiling, a tile floor, dim lighting, var-
nished burlap wallpaper and "medallion" wall paintings still
lurk in the shadows.
Voices of Depression-era immigrants seem to echo up the airshaft
of the five-story brick building — once teeming with poor, large fami-
lies lured by the Statue of Liberty.
In 1988, 97 Orchard Street — long closed —
reopened as the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. I t
stands as a humbling monument to steerage-class
immigrants who passed through New York Harbor.
State housing reform in 1867 defined a tenement as
any building rented to three or more unrelated families.
Built for $8,000 in 1863 by Lucas Glockner, a
German-born tailor, 97 Orchard Street remained a ten-
ement until 1935; tougher tenement laws forced owner
ROBERT A. Moishe Helpern, a Russian-born peddler, to evict all
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but one family from his 20 three-room flats. Four
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storefronts stayed open.
Between 1880 and 1924, most who settled on the
Lower East Side were Eastern European Jews; 60,000 came between
1880 and 1890. The area's population, swelled also by Italians, peaked
at 550,000 in 1910.
Exposes led to the Tenement House Law of 1901,
bringing better lighting and plumbing. Still, lack of
natural light, fresh air and elbowroom caused cholera,
typhus and other diseases to spread quickly.
In 1870, 97 Orchard Street housed 71 people,
mostly working-class Germans. By 1890, 110 resi-
dents were mostly Yiddish-speaking Russian, Austrian,
Polish and Romanian Jews toiling in the garment
Ruth Abram
industry. Twenty years later, 16 Ladino-speaking
Sephardic Jews arrived, fleeing revolution in what is
now northern Greece.
Over time, 7,000 people from 20 countries lived at 97 Orchard
Street. The last — Fannie Rosenthal, a Lithuanian-born Jew whose
family moved in about 1910 — left in 1941.
Experience the time warp that is the Lower East Side Tenement
Museum and you deeply appreciate the bounty most Americans enjoy.
In the paperback A Tenement Story, president and founder Ruth
Abram eloquently recollects how the museum resonates with "the strug-
gles, strategies and triumphs of our urban, working-class immigrant
forebears."

By Goldfein

esides being Jewish, what do model
Cindy Margolis, actor Corey Haim and
singer Neil Sedaka have in common?

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Advance Packaging
Technologies

Katzman & Siegel
Photography

Advertising
Alternatives

Kleiman, Carney
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P.C.

Air-Master Heating

There once was a fella named Fred
Whose wife seemed to change once they'd wed.
She'd said things politely,
But now it seems nightly
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Lighting Supply
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Live Safe Academy

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Duraclean
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"My mother called me to concede only after Al
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"The Jews of the world did not dream for gener--
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prayed to only one place, and that is Jerusalem."
— Sallai Meridor, Jewish Agency for
Israel chairman, on the prospect of Israel giving up
control over parts of Jerusalem,
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Faces in the Air, Ltd.

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Somerset Cleaners

GameWorks

Speedlink, Inc.

Golden Valley Dairy

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Technihouse
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Judy Greenbaum

The Sports Gallery

GT Photographic

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Harper Furniture

Technicom Group

Harry's Garden
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Tracey and
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Hersch's Lawn
Spray

Unique Restaurant
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Michael Jonas
Photography

Victor/Harder
Productions

David Kahan

Walker Printery.
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