What comes around...

Ah the lower East Side of NYC. Now a fashionable district for Japanese NYU students. Before that, punkrock heaven. Before that, hippy heaven. Before that, Puerto Rican slums. Before that, Jewish and other Eastern European slums... where new immigrants came to work their way out of the slums. Often they joined unions to help each other pull themselves out of the LES muck. They lived in tenements... in squalid conditions.

So, someone decides to make a tenement museum. A testimony to these hard-working, usually radical labor organizers and members. And what happens? Of course, it's capitalism!



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