30 years ago, the Tenement Museum was established to tell the stories of immigrants who started their lives on Manhattan's Lower East Side between the 19th and 21st centuries. Now, through the recreated apartment and businesses of real families in two historic tenement buildings, the museum is the best way to learn more about immigration in America, through New York City's Lower East Side.

In this week's featured video you'll hear from Museum Co-Founder, Ruth Abram, current Museum President, Kevin Jennings, and a number of Museum staff discussing the Museum's evolution and what continues to make the Tenement Museum and its work so vital.

Staten Island resident and artist Sarah Yuster is known for her urban landscape and portrait paintings. In this short profile video from the Staten Island Advance, learn the story behind how she got her start in the art world.

Growing up in Great Kills in the 1960s, Sarah Yuster spent days romping through woods and frolicking about the lush greenery that existed on the South Shore before builders began rapid development. A self-proclaimed "tomboy" she looked to occupy her time enjoying nature. "I spent my time in the woods, in the marsh, stepping on nails on construction sites," said Yuster. "My greatest loves were the outdoors and the natural sciences. I always thought I'd go into that [the sciences] field."

Yuster, now a long-time West Brighton resident, is largely responsible for putting Staten Island on the map through her artwork. Perhaps the most renown piece is her haunting Victory Boulevard at Dawn landscape depicting a vista of the Twin Towers from a high point on Victory Boulevard in Silver Lake. Now, after living the dream for more than three decades, Yuster is on the forefront of the Staten Island arts scene by selling her work online through her new website.

With dozens of historic steakhouses probably older than you are, New York City is the best place to get a flavorful cut with a side dish of history. But new steakhouses are joining in and changing the game too, adding a new tangent in the cultural institution that is the New York City steakhouse. Learn how in this short video from our friends at Thrillist.

The New York City steakhouse is one of the city’s most venerable cultural institutions. From Teddy Roosevelt to Albert Einstein, men would arrive to smoke pipes and eat mutton chops — that's just what they did. It has outlasted the mob, the Dodgers, and even the centuries-late arrival of the Second Ave subway. It is a meaty monument of callousness, self-importance, and excess that could only exist at the center of the universe. If you decide to stop in at Keens, Babe Ruth’s old haunt on 36th Street, for a steak, remember the paradox of the NYC steakhouse: It’s good enough to kill you, and it always has been.