Alternative spaces have also been opened up at Orchard Street, Tentercroft Street and Broadgate.

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Close to the Bowery on 97 Orchard Street, the Tenement Museum of New York recreates the lives of emigrants struggling with urban squalor.

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Within the dark walls of 97 Orchard Street, Germans, Irish, Italians, and Sephardic Greeks crammed their large families, with dead horses and filth of all description littering the nearby streets.

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Others developments have included canal-side planting in Piccadilly Basin, the creation of an orchard in St John's Gardens and a Northern Quarter pocket park on Thomas Street, and a revamp of Albert Bridge Gardens.

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