tenement

I published one of the first R.E.M. fanzines, sitting at my kitchen table in my third-floor Hoboken tenement walkup with an X-Acto knife and a glue stick.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

He published his Yiddish-infused epic of tenement life at the age of 28.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

In our tenement there were families who spilled in and out of each other’s apartments, sharing child care and stews.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

The tenements at Clune Park in Port Glasgow were built a century ago as housing for shipyard workers but most of the buildings lay empty for years.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

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 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

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

About four o’clock, the flats in the tenements across from Francie’s yard came to life.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith