Facts and Findings - A New Guide to Historic Sites

The National Trust for Historic Preservation is launching an online travel guide with video footage promoting heritage sites. The organization preserves historic sites around the US and keeps tabs of the most endangered spots. Their pilot video features the Lower East Side (a 2008 endangered site), with footage of the Tenement Museum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KypZBM6v5QY



Above: A boom in new construction helped place the LES on the Endangered List