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tenements

noun

plural of tenement

as in apartments

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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Recent Examples of tenements No one wants to go back to the days of tenements and apartments with insufficient ventilation or light. — Michael Schill, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026 The novel begins with a deadly fire that destroys two tenements. — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026 German Jews—my people—were far less numerous, most of them came to the United States earlier, and their typical first occupation was peddling, which entailed wandering through non-Jewish areas, not living in tenements. — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026 The tenements featured in Marty Supreme of course replicated those from the 1950s. — India Roby, Architectural Digest, 27 Feb. 2026 More than half a million residents live in NYCHA development plagued by chronic mold, broken elevators, and heating failures; others reside in subpar tenements run by crooked landlords. — Darius Jones, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026 There’s a row of five-story buildings off Fifth Avenue in Park Slope that seem to fit the neighborhood standard for prewar, working-class tenements — a central staircase divvying up ten dark railroad apartments. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 Jan. 2026 The grotty tenements of the Lower East Side — and the distinct fashion within — is as much of a character in A24’s drama as the eponymous ping pong player himself. — Anna Tingley, Variety, 27 Dec. 2025 The streets, tenements, fire-escapes, the elders, and the urgent concerns of childhood—or, rather, the helpless intensity of anguish with which one watches one’s childhood disappear—are rendered very vividly indeed by Louise Meriwether, in her first novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner. — Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025

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Azalea Group Palmares' flagship apartments provide a variety of layouts to suit various group sizes for those looking for more room and seclusion.

— Jeff Goudy, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
The dueling lawsuits center on the vacant 1920s era Bonita apartments building at 69 Seward Street.

— John Wisely, Freep.com, 29 Aug. 2026

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The residence began as two separate penthouses, but in the mid-1990s they were combined into one home in a project commissioned by investor businessman Billy Getty, according to Christie’s International Real Estate.

— David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Wealthy Americans living in luxe California mansions and New York penthouses are now snatching up historic homes abroad.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026

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