tenement

I published one of the first R.E.M. fanzines, sitting at my kitchen table in my third-floor Hoboken tenement walkup with an X-Acto knife and a glue stick.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

The addresses raided by the police included a tenement flat in Edinburgh's South Clerk Street, a five-minute walk from one of the capital's busiest police stations.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

He published his Yiddish-infused epic of tenement life at the age of 28.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

In the densely populated Centro Habana district, a storm brought down the stone staircase, leading from the ground to the upper floors, in the neo-classical pink 1920s tenement where Marnie Estevez lives.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

I felt like a poor person in a tenement building, when someone has died, asking if I might see the body.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Her crusade reflected her earlier shock upon seeing Lower East Side tenements for the first time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

In the first four years of her life, her family relocated 11 times, moving in with relatives after evictions, or into rat-infested Philadelphia tenements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025

The tenements at Clune Park in the Inverclyde town of Port Glasgow were built a century ago as housing for shipyard workers but have lain mostly abandoned for years.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025

It’s one of the world’s largest and densest slum clusters where families of six often live in 100-square tenements and 80 people may share a toilet.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2024

Our stable and Miss Whitlaw s house and the tenements to either side heaved and bobbed up and down, riding the ground like ships on a heavy sea.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep