The foundation that bears the name of Stavros Niarchos – the Greek Shipping Tycoon- is continuing his legacy with a $500,000 gift to New York’s Lower East Side Tenement Museum. The purpose of tne gift is to underwrite a historic tour featuring a Sephardic-Greek family who lived in the tenement in 1916.
The apartment and tour are the living history interpretation of the Confino family’s experience and their struggles as they moved from Kastoria, Greece, and put down roots on the Lower East Side.
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum was founded in 1988. The Museum focuses on helping inform a national audience about the role of immigration in shaping America’s open society and democratic culture. In presenting the history of immigration, the Tenement Museum interprets a phenomenon that has built New York. The Lower East Side’s historic immigrants are brought to life in an 1863 tenement that housed 7,000 people from 20 different nations before it was condemned as unfit for occupancy in 1935. The Museum has transformed this once-abandoned building into the core of its permanent collection and exhibitions, and a symbol of the immigration experience.
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