tenement
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Roy Porter’s kaleidoscopic portrait of 18th-century England captures high and low society, from stately home to poor tenement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
“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
Riis exposed Lower East Side slum conditions in tenement photographs that would form the basis for his renowned book, “How the Other Half Lives.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025
The first phase of demolition will see the church, the school and 15 of the 45 tenement blocks taken down, 138 flats in total - but the plan is for them all to go eventually.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2025
Feeling vaguely queasy, I watched him until he reached the next block, then entered my tenement.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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