In New York City, rapid growth and the imposition of the New York City street grid both played major roles in the look, density, and availability of housing for New Yorkers. Tenements originated from ...

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With the boom in television shows and websites dedicated to discovering one’s ancestral roots and with debate over immigration dominating yet another campaign season, it’s heartening and enlightening ...

Spying flames vomiting from a Manhattan tenement one night last week, a scavenging junkman named Roderick Good turned in an alarm. In their beds in the five-story rookery lay more than 100 tenants.

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Is 97 Orchard Street, also known as the Tenement Museum, up to code? They're inviting you to find out, during their Tenement Inspectors event on March 6th, where you will play the role of building ...

Better days are ahead for the Randolph Houses on West 114th Street—not that the 36 tenement buildings in Central Harlem Two of the 22 tenement buildings on the south side of 114th Street, all of which ...

Some crises never seem to change, and in New York, it’s our housing crisis. For those of low income, there simply isn’t enough that’s affordable. We declared a housing emergency after World War II — ...

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