Patricia Marx, On and Off the Avenue, “Art and Commerce,” The New Yorker, December 3, 2007, p. 61

“On the other hand, a museum that is so excellent that it almost doesn’t need to peddle curios is the Lower East Side Tenement Museum (97 Orchard Street). I dare you to go on a tour of the run-down 163 building and not think, This brownstone would make a good fixer-upper. Across the street, in the gift shop (108 Orchard Street), which is teeming with New York-related knickknacks, I watched for a good long time as a couple tried to decide which laminated sign to buy: “Irish Need Not Apply” or “Italians Always Welcome” ($10 each).”

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