tenement

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

“We lived a teeny tenement apartment on 29th and 2nd Avenue above the Wonderland Blues Bar,” Brooks says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025

Her family relocated 11 times before she was four years old; they were evicted and had to live with relatives; they moved into a rat-infested tenement building in Philadelphia.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025

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

In the fireworks’ diminishing glow, the tenement houses across the street seemed precarious, as though they would collapse into ruin and rubble at any moment.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

In major cities, middle-class reformers opened settlement houses for poor immigrants, enacted housing codes to ban cold-water tenements and set up free public schools.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 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

Here were no tenements or raucous shabby stores.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith