The Tenement Museum offered one of its rare "Snapshot" tours last night, allowing visitors to not only walk intoevery apartment on all five floors of the great old 1863building, but also take pictures throughout, breaking theinstitution's usual "no-photos" rule. The cost was $30, it included an excellent spread from Russ & Daughters and Economy Candy, and it lasted about 90 minutes.

As always in the Tenement Museum, the Snapshot tours were guided, and because there were about six groups of a dozen people each moving through the space at once, our time within each apartment and hallway area was strictly limited and tightly enforced. Which was fine! 

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