tenement

Example Sentences

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When she wasn’t seeing private clients on the Upper East Side she was working in a bleak tenement building in East Harlem, treating heroin addiction.

From Scientific American

The extractive industry employs nearly two-thirds of the city’s work force, many of whom live in Soviet-stye block tenements, some adorned with towering mosaics of steelworkers.

From New York Times

The sweetheart deals include trade-offs to developers to build tall tenement housing structures on the condition that they add more affordable housing.

From Washington Post

One, filmed from a tenement flat window, showed a large group of individuals walking along Somerville Drive on Glasgow's south side.

From BBC

Conditions were brutal: Shifts could last 18 hours, injuries were common and women earned half of what men did, barely enough to pay rent in crowded tenements and boardinghouses.

From Washington Post