• See the tenement style bathroom, with the shower and toilet in two different rooms.

    FORBES: Would you pay $5 for a tour of my apartment?

  • Rents were cheap in the crumbling tenement blocks in Prenzlauer Berg, Mitte and, later, Friedrichshain.

    ECONOMIST: Geography of cool: Berlin

  • But for the incandescent aficionados, fluorescent lights tend to be associated with morgues, prisons and tenement hallways.

    BBC: The 60W bulb: A luminary love affair

  • They include his sports pictures, portraits and socially conscious cityscapes (many showing New York's hardscrabble tenement life).

    WSJ: George Bellows at Washington's National Gallery of Art

  • Gorse burning at the Grande Beauregard tenement was criticised by conservationists for putting the island's breeding birds in danger.

    BBC: Gorse being cleared

  • As a child, Connery lived in a four-storey tenement in Edinburgh's Fountainbridge and once worked as a milkman on a horse-drawn float.

    BBC: Sir Sean's pride at knighthood

  • Close to the Bowery on 97 Orchard Street, the Tenement Museum of New York recreates the lives of emigrants struggling with urban squalor.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Supermarket worker McKenzie, from the city's Carntyne area, was seen carrying a bag while visiting Nesbitt's tenement flat in Battlefield on 24 May last year.

    BBC: Lawyer Gerard Nesbitt convicted in cannabis supply trial

  • Riis himself promoted the "model tenement": privately built apartments for the poor, constructed to higher standards made possible by investors' willingness to forgo normal profits.

    FORBES: Is 'Slumdog Millionaire' Real?

  • It was at this point that Lang Lang remembers his father, enraged by his failure, telling him he should throw himself off their tenement building.

    CNN: Lang Lang: The most popular pianist on the planet

  • The buildings were considered pioneers in the "light-court" model of tenement development, intended as an alternative to the dark and unventilated tenements common at the time.

    WSJ: New Spat Over Upper East Side Rent

  • The refurbished venue, which combines eastern and western architectural elements including an Art Deco facade and a Chinese-style roof, lies amid low-rise tenement buildings, vibrant markets and local shops.

    BBC: Cantonese opera returns to Hong Kong

  • New York's Tenement House Museum now refers to its historic building, tellingly, not as slum housing but as an "urban log cabin"--a starting point for upward mobility.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • To prepare for trials, she followed police into tenement shooting galleries, scaled rickety staircases in dilapidated buildings and fought off the stench of squalor to talk to reluctant witnesses.

    CNN: The story

  • When, this summer, I heard on the news that some Africans had died because a fire had started in the stairway of their rundown tenement, I had an idea.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'The Elegance Of The Hedgehog'

  • The streets of Glasgow weren't nearly as friendly 65 years ago when the young Billy Connolly arrived with a plop on the cold linoleum floor of his parents' tenement house.

    CNN: Billy Connolly: From welder to wit

  • The two buildings, which are part of a massive 15-tenement complex on the Upper East Side, are at the center of a dispute that has raged for more than two decades.

    WSJ: New Spat Over Upper East Side Rent

  • And since there were one-family houses selling in Union for a Depression low of a few thousand dollars, he would be able to realize an ambition he had nurtured growing up penniless in a Newark tenement flat: to become an American homeowner.

    NPR: Roth Rewrites History with a 'Plot Against America'

  • It consisted of four stories about the residents of a tenement house at 55 Dropsie Avenue in the Bronx (Mr Eisner, the son of Jewish immigrants, grew up in the 1930s in just such a tenement, with dark bare stairways and interlacing washing lines).

    ECONOMIST: Obituary

  • In the opening pages, we learn how Sonia learned to administer the daily shots of insulin herself imagine an eight-year old girl propping herself on the stool in a Bronx tenement to boil water for her syringe because she had quickly gathered that she could not depend on anyone else to do it for her.

    FORBES: Sonia Sotomayor's Next Big Gig: Mentor in Chief

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