tenement

Example Sentences

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He says he is “obsessed” with the Tenement Museum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, which shows visitors what it was like to be an impoverished Jewish immigrant in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

If New York’s heartbeat of outdoor basketball is Rucker Park, then Manila’s is Tenement Court — located in the courtyard between several tenement buildings.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2023

People lived, the New York State Tenement House Commission found in 1900, "crowded together in dark, ill-ventilated rooms, in many of which the sunlight never enters and in most of which fresh air is unknown."

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2022

And in Manhattan, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum will receive $400,000 to support guided tours exploring the lives of African Americans and Irish immigrants in 19th-century New York City.

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2022

It was at a time before the King's Daughters' Tenement House Committee was organized, when out-of-town friends used to send flowers to my office for the poor.

From The Battle with the Slum by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)