tenement house
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Aug. 7, 1883: A building in Mount Vernon, New York that the New York Times describes as “the pickle-works and tenement house of George Frieschel” burns down.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2020
A wealthy young man causes a stir within his family when he decides to purchase a tenement house in the ghetto.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2019
“That means an obligation to the coal-miners and sharecroppers, the migratory workers, the tenement house dwellers and farmers who cannot make a living.”
From Time ● Oct. 3, 2017
Against a cross-sectional background of a four-story tenement house with crumbling stairways and dank, sunless rooms, the U. S. slum problem is forcefully dramatized.
From Time Magazine Archive
And above me, on the back landing of the tenement house next door, I saw a half dozen boys begin to shout.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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