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December 9, 2021

New York’s Tenement Museum Succumbs to Political Correctness

“No more Jews. I want to tell my story!”

Located on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the Tenement Museum was established in 1988 in what was once one of the many crowded buildings that housed thousands of Jewish, German, and Irish immigrant families in the early 20th century. Peter Van Buren, who began working there as a docent in 2016, recalls what he liked about the position:

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