tenement

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

Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor came from little in a material sense, he from tiny Pin Point, Ga., she from a Bronx tenement and later a housing project.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

I had lived in a tenement building in New York’s Chinatown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

She worked as a janitress and kept three tenement houses clean.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

Growing up in Glasgow's tenements, Lulu - whose name then was Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie - lived in a "war zone".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025

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

“Scores of the children will be seen sitting listlessly on the steps of the tenements or playing half-hearted games on the streets,” a New Yorker worried of city summers in 1903.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023

Grimy brick tenements shifted in the corner of my eye, acquiring decorative statues and rococo stuccowork—the adornments of a European city.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros