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In today\u2019s show, we\u2019ll continue to explore housing in New York, but move far from the mansions of Fifth Avenue to the tenements of the Lower East Side in the 20th Century. Specifically, we\u2019ll be visiting one building, 103 Orchard Street, which is today part of the Tenement Museum. \n\n\n\n\nWhen we step inside 103 Orchard, we\u2019ll be meeting three families who lived there after World War II: the Epsteins, the Saez-Velez family, and the Wong family. We\u2019ll be getting to know them by walking through their apartments, faithfully reconstructed, often with their very own furniture, to tell their stories. \n\n\n\n\nThe Epsteins were Holocaust survivors who moved into the building in the 1950s, the Saez-Velez family moved in during the 60s and were led by a mother who left Puerto Rico and worked as a seamstress here, and the Wong family, whose mother raised the family while working in Chinatown garment shops, moved in during the 1970s.\n\n\n\n\nThey\u2019re included in an exciting new interactive exhibition at the Tenement Museum. This exhibit, which includes a tour of the apartments, is called \u201cUnder One Roof\u201d, and opens to the public this month. We\u2019re led through it on our show by Annie Polland, the museum\u2019s curator of this exhibit. \n\n\n\n\nFor more information on the exhibit, visit tenement.org and boweryboyshistory.com.\xa0\n\n\n\n\nSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys