Today I am back in the lower east side at the Tenement museum to do the final two tours - Foods of the lower east side and Shop life. As today is going to be about grazing on local food, I thought I would go all out and have a street food brunch. I returned to Washington square where Jane and I did the Greenwich village food tour and bought some falafel and a slice of the white artichoke pizza, and took these and had a picnic in Washington park. So good, but ther...

I'm returning to the lower east side today, to see some more of the tenement museum and this very interesting neighbourhood. I have been thinking alot about my last visit to the museum thanks to the news story about the horrific building collapse in Bangladesh that killed all those garment workers who were working in very unsafe conditions. The garment industry was what the lower east side was known for, and at the turn of the century a fire broke out in a large ...

It's a little cooler today due to extreme weather being experienced in the middle states of America - they have had snowstorms and tornadoes, we are going to get some of that cooler weather here and some rain to go with it. I'm using another of my museum memberships today - this time exploring the lower east side with the help of the Tenement museum. I will be doing a neighbourhood walking tour, followed by a sweatshop tour. When you first emerge from the sub...