New York is one of the few truly global cities, existing as much in billions of people’s imaginations as on the island of Manhattan and its environs.
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New York’s tenements – and the generations who have called them home – have long been the focus of concerns about contagion and public health.
As part of Contagious Cities, the Tenement Museum offered a series of special tours of its historic tenement buildings located on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The tours told stories linking themes of disease, medicine, immigration and reform in the lives of their former residents.
People featured included:
Contagious Cities was a collaborative exploration of microbes, migration and the metropolis.
The project ran from September 2018 to September 2019.