The average brick tenement has ... from the fact that in New York at least sixty thousand people are living in houses about to be demolished for public and private slum clearance projects to ...

Stimulated largely by the work of the New York Tenement House Commission of 1901, many cities are now investigating their slums and framing laws for their improvement. The importance of this ...

men and women have been making for the last ten years against the fifth, ignorance, crime, and suffering of the worst of New York's slums. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

(JTA) — The Tenement Museum, which tells the stories of Jewish and other immigrants who lived on New York City’s Lower East Side, announced that it is laying off its tour guides and other part ...