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 ...

Discover what tenements are, how they operate, their origins during industrialization, and key legislative acts impacting their evolution.

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For centuries, differing perspectives on housing density have shaped and reshaped New York City. In a new exhibition at the Skyscraper Museum, Housing Density: From Tenements to Towers, visitors can ...

The majority of New York City's population in the 19th Century lived in sub-standard conditions as vulnerable and low-income populations were housed in cramped and dangerous tenements. New York didn't ...

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.

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 — ...

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 ...

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