as in apartment
a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place
an exhibit of pictures showing the tenements of the New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen during the 1920s
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Immigrant Irish, Italians, Greeks, Russians, Poles, Albanians, Lebanese, Lithuanians, Jews and Blacks all lived together in relative harmony in brick tenement buildings, not unlike the structures today on the Cambridge Street side of Beacon Hill.
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Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
Lawmakers restricted livestock in tenements and ordered manure to be cleaned up from yards and vacant lots.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 30 Jan. 2025
When Peter Orlovsky opens the door to their rundown tenement apartment, Hujar is left standing around awkwardly until Ginsberg acknowledges him.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2025
The exclusive dining rooms were part of what helped establish the buildings’ allure in a city that back then had a thriving elite class, even as two-thirds of the rest of the population crowded into tenements.
—Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
Lawmakers restricted livestock in tenements and ordered manure to be cleaned up from yards and vacant lots.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 30 Jan. 2025
When Peter Orlovsky opens the door to their rundown tenement apartment, Hujar is left standing around awkwardly until Ginsberg acknowledges him.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2025
The exclusive dining rooms were part of what helped establish the buildings’ allure in a city that back then had a thriving elite class, even as two-thirds of the rest of the population crowded into tenements.
—Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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“Tenement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenement. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.
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