tenement

Jeon-Gi grew up in a tenement apartment north of New York City and spent his childhood running free in the playgrounds with an ethnically diverse band of neighbors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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

Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor came from little in a material sense, he from tiny Pin Point, Ga., she from a Bronx tenement and later a housing project.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Colonial authorities, meanwhile, transform the Worli chawls - tenement housing for cotton mill workers - into makeshift prisons for detained nationalists.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025

I was to find out later that he lived in the tenement house next door.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

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

“Scores of the children will be seen sitting listlessly on the steps of the tenements or playing half-hearted games on the streets,” a New Yorker worried of city summers in 1903.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023

Through all those years of solitude she had lived in one of the tenements where she used to say the rosary against the wishes of its intended beneficiaries in the days of her youth.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende