The Lower East Side Tenement Museum highlights the stories, experiences and lives of the 7,000 immigrants who lived in this one tenement home from 1863 to 1935. The building was condemned and closed in 1935 after the owners could not keep the building up to code. After sitting empty for more than 50 years, the site was restored and recreated to celebrate the families who lived here. Our tour highlighted Irish immigrants living in a small one bedroom apartment on the fourth floor with three children. Treated as outsiders, the stories of the early Irish immigrants provided an insightful look at the immigrant experience and had many parallels to discrimination and anti-immigration sentiment that is still alive today.