tenement

Example Sentences

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When she wasn’t seeing private clients on the Upper East Side she was working in a bleak tenement building in East Harlem, treating heroin addiction.

From Scientific American

The extractive industry employs nearly two-thirds of the city’s work force, many of whom live in Soviet-stye block tenements, some adorned with towering mosaics of steelworkers.

From New York Times

The sweetheart deals include trade-offs to developers to build tall tenement housing structures on the condition that they add more affordable housing.

From Washington Post

The street, also known as El Paso, it is in a lane off Springvalley Gardens, and is accessed through an opening in a block of tenement flats.

From BBC

A brass plaque at the door was the only clue that the tenement was home to The Morningside Club.

From BBC