Tour the Servants' Quarters at the Merchant's House Museu

Thanks to the Irish maids who slept and did some of their work there, the fourth floor servant bedroom now on view at the Merchant's House Museum is "arguably the oldest intact site of Irish habitation in Manhattan" according to Time Out New York. Every Saturday and Sunday, you're invited to come climb the narrow staircase and see where the wealthy Tredwell family's staff of four domestic servants lived and did some of their work. By opening this rarely seen space, the Museum can begin to tell the story of the courageous Irish women who fled poverty and starvation at home to find a better life for themselves and their family in mid-19th century New York.