St. Luke's 5th Graders Visit NYC

The Fifth Grade took their annual trek to the Lower East Side on Wednesday, December 3, to deepen their understanding of the themes in their literature unit on immigration.

Learning about the emergence of immigrant neighborhoods with in New York in the nineteenth century, the students have been reading particularly about Brooklyn and Manhattan tenement life at the time of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge.

After spending the morning at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum on Orchard Street, learning about the German, Italian, and Irish immigrants who had lived there, the students fanned out to restaurants in Little Italy and capped the day with a guided tour of the neighborhoods and a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge at sunset.

Despite the intermittent rain and the windy chill on the Bridge, everyone had a terrific time and gained appreciation for the richness and challenges of immigrant life and for the magnificence of the Brooklyn Bridge, an unmatched testament to human ingenuity, determination, and vision.