On my recent trip to New York City, one of the non-negotiable stops on my travels was the Tenement Museum. So much of what I read when I was young was set in a romanticized version of New York, or had characters who dreamed of New York, and a lot of it talked about life in tenements. Having grown up in wide open northern Canada, I have been fascinated by that world nearly my whole life. The museum was great, and had different themes focusing […]