tenement
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In the densely populated Centro Habana district, a storm brought down the stone staircase, leading from the ground to the upper floors, in the neo-classical pink 1920s tenement where Marnie Estevez lives.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
The boys’ father started his life in a Lower East Side tenement before apprenticing as a lawyer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
I had lived in a tenement building in New York’s Chinatown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
Colonial authorities, meanwhile, transform the Worli chawls - tenement housing for cotton mill workers - into makeshift prisons for detained nationalists.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
Three blocks from my tenement, I reached the tahara house.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Her crusade reflected her earlier shock upon seeing Lower East Side tenements for the first time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
In the first four years of her life, her family relocated 11 times, moving in with relatives after evictions, or into rat-infested Philadelphia tenements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
In major cities, middle-class reformers opened settlement houses for poor immigrants, enacted housing codes to ban cold-water tenements and set up free public schools.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2025
The tenements at Clune Park in the Inverclyde town of Port Glasgow were built a century ago as housing for shipyard workers but have lain mostly abandoned for years.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
They came more out of kindness than faith, giving the aging spinster a chance to recall her good old days in the tenements.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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