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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Marcus was born in 1929, months before the Great Depression, and his family lived in a fourth-floor walk-up tenement in Newark, New Jersey.
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Lee Habeeb, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
As the robber barons decorated their palaces and mused about their public responsibilities, slums and tenements were rife with disease, farmers struggled under crushing debts, and factory workers and miners risked death and dismemberment to eke out a living.
—Zephyr Teachout, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
While the disease is still a leading killer globally, U.S. death rates from tuberculosis fell as authorities enacted public health and welfare reforms, such as adopting child labor laws and extending greater oversight to overcrowded tenements and factories.
—Thomas J. Bollyky, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2020
Rogers was born in a tenement on Second Street in 1911, where Riverfront Stadium was later constructed.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 18 Sep. 2024
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Lee Habeeb, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
As the robber barons decorated their palaces and mused about their public responsibilities, slums and tenements were rife with disease, farmers struggled under crushing debts, and factory workers and miners risked death and dismemberment to eke out a living.
—Zephyr Teachout, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
While the disease is still a leading killer globally, U.S. death rates from tuberculosis fell as authorities enacted public health and welfare reforms, such as adopting child labor laws and extending greater oversight to overcrowded tenements and factories.
—Thomas J. Bollyky, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2020
Rogers was born in a tenement on Second Street in 1911, where Riverfront Stadium was later constructed.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 18 Sep. 2024
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