When Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives in 1890, New York City’s Lower East Side was the epicenter of American tenement life. At one point, almost three hundred thousand people were ...

Danger to the community from tuberculous diseases emanating from the tenements was the principal subject considered at the second of a series of conferences on the tenement problem at 404 Fifth ...

For many people who moved into tenements - a term usually used to describe flats with shared access and stairway - it was a ...

One of the unexpected pleasures of this year’s vast SXSW slate of movies is Bunny, a kind of zany comic throwback to extreme ...

“The tenement rate, often categorized under property ... adding that expectations of the people from the local governments would definitely increase. “The implication is that, more revenue ...