Open Spaces on the Lower East Side: With the Museum at Eldridge Street & Seward Park Library

Recorded on May 10, 2023
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Discover how open spaces represented both societal and infrastructural change on the Lower East Side.
100 years ago, the Lower East Side was the most densely populated neighborhood in the world! Residents lived, worked, and shopped in cramped tenements and busy streets, and there was a desperate need for open space, especially for the neighborhood’s children, the first generation to grow up in such crowded conditions.
Join Scott Brevda of the Museum at Eldridge Street and Andrew Fairweather of the Seward Park Library (NYPL) to learn about the history of open spaces on the Lower East Side.