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tenement

[ten-uh-muhnt] / ˈtɛn ə mənt /


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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 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

Mr Gibson said he opened the door to the tenement hallway, at which point smoke came billowing into the flat.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2025

Herbert and his friend Johannes Kirsch worked their way up and down the streets, stuffing flyers into tenement mailboxes and doorways.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti




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