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 ...

HERE'S HOW ABE LINCOLN, CORNED BEEF CONNOISSEUR, FLAVORED AMERICA'S ST. PATRICK'S DAY CELEBRATIONS It’s a gritty six-story one-time tenement at 96-98 St. Mark’s Place in the now trendy East ...

"The tenement house market in Poland is an absolute niche. Our data shows that over 70 percent of existing tenements still require revitalization, and only 3.5 percent of secondary market listings are ...

Speaking to IrishCentral in 2020, Dave Favalora, Director of the New York Tenement Museum, said that the Orchard Street building consisted of 22 apartments holding 22 large families.In total, as ...

Evidence of Mumbai’s colonial past can be found in the city’s chawls, rickety tenement flats stacked upon each other like depressing LEGO blocks. The structures sprung up around the city to ...