tenement

Jeon-Gi grew up in a tenement apartment north of New York City and spent his childhood running free in the playgrounds with an ethnically diverse band of neighbors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

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

“We lived a teeny tenement apartment on 29th and 2nd Avenue above the Wonderland Blues Bar,” Brooks says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025

Scenes switch effortlessly from Prague, with its shadowy bridge looming over the Moldau, to a Brooklyn tenement, a busy office, a tony art gallery, and the roof of the Empire State Building.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2025

It was in this tenement that the personality of my father first came fully into the orbit of my concern.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

Her crusade reflected her earlier shock upon seeing Lower East Side tenements for the first time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

His beat was the town’s public housing tenements, and Sibley said he quickly worked out that people responded better to persuasion than threats of force or arrest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024

It’s one of the world’s largest and densest slum clusters where families of six often live in 100-square tenements and 80 people may share a toilet.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2024

At the same time, "Fiddler" coincided with the Jewish exodus from tenements and sweatshops to suburban homes and professional opportunities.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2023

The two ramshackle rooms, built from zinc and porous bricks, like the ones on Fifteenth Avenue, overlooked the street, and were part of a row of similarly constructed tenements partitioned by narrow, dark, rat-infested alleyways.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane