tenement
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I had lived in a tenement building in New York’s Chinatown.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
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
Vilo was later spotted in the window of the tenement building by nearby residents.
From BBC • Jul. 2, 2025
Riis exposed Lower East Side slum conditions in tenement photographs that would form the basis for his renowned book, “How the Other Half Lives.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025
A more special aspect that may not apply in all cases is that my files apparently are a tenement for assorted vermin.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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