Her new book, "Tenements, Towers & Trash," is a departure.
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They came tired and poor, and huddled together in tenements.
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The dark panes of other tenements stared back at her.
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Photographs of the Chelsea tenements at PAMM are unassuming street scenes.
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TENEMENTS, TOWERS & TRASH: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City.
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In the East Village, tenements that hadn't been torched became squats.
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Largely built from wood, tenements were made more flammable by poor sanitation.
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Wertz's glossy magazine assignments and more are included in Tenements, Towers & Trash.
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Other historic structures dot the neighborhood, as do old tenements, many now renovated.
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The tenements came down, but the fight over what to do next continued.
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In tenements and in cellars, they crowded together, ten or twenty to a room.
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And Mr. Flower was fretting about an 1890s get-up themed to Jewish tenements.
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"It was just a quick fix," said an expert in tracking surrendered mineral tenements.
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The tenements that were on that land before were shacks, they were like shantytowns.
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The book is enriched by those who lived in tenements, skyscrapers or Fifth Avenue palaces.
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Such tenements, known as tong lau, were common here in Hong Kong before high-rises.
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They visit Ahyeon-dong, a hillside shantytown covered with identical two- or three-story tenements.
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Early Irish arrivals moved into the wooden tenements in the notorious, gang-infested Five Points.
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Already, there are the familiar tenements and fire escapes, many hung with signs for Chinese restaurants.
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They kept a valuable SoHo lot vacant so children from neighboring tenements could play on it.
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They are Belgian and French citizens, criminals and thugs, radicalized in the festering tenements of Brussels.
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Second and First Avenues, and six-block Pleasant Avenue, are thick with five-story brick tenements.
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Danger lurks in the crumbling farmhouses of its countryside and the sunbaked tenements of its inner city.
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One of the themes of that film is artists buying abandoned tenements in the Lower East Side.
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Back then, the projects were a big change from the rat-and-roach infested tenements in Harlem.
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Working women bunked in tenements with relatives or streamed into boarding houses with rules against male visitors.
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Another 2.5 million hold below-market leases on tenements in crumbling pre-1940 buildings managed by the state.
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The immigrants who lived in the tenements of the Lower East Side a century ago are long gone.
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It's an odd, semi-gentrified corner of the city, a mix of giant apartment towers and older tenements.
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"Mount Vernon has rows and rows of substandard tenements," Justice Wood said after touring a site of looting.
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Nothing here looks quite as awful and primitive as the cave tenements of Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York.
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On the lowest archipelago, tenements and industrialization are stacked atop each other, held together by a purple, mucousy fog.
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We round a bend and head down a bumpy hill, to a cul-de-sac of low-rise tenements.
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The buildings, built by the G. X. Mathews Company, had larger rooms and better sanitary facilities than earlier tenements.
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Her specialty was crystalline black-and-white images that lavish equal attention on steel skyscrapers and crumbling brick tenements.
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Ice can form on pretty much any New York City building, from low-rise tenements to luxury high rises.
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My father was born in New York City and grew up in the tenements and housing projects of Lower Manhattan.
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He'd grown up rough in the tenements of turn-of-the-century Hell's Kitchen, running with a vicious street gang.
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As such, it inevitably pays tribute to the city's iconography: its crowded tenements and highbrow retreats and quasi-legitimate nightclubs.
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To replace tenements and boarded-up buildings, he proposed restaurants, shops and an arts walk rivaling San Antonio's River Walk.
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Tenants in tenements are being harassed by landlords so they might move, to clear their homes for redevelopment, he said.
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As they sit in the car, the Commander points out the sights: They took down tenements and put in a park!
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He suggested that the deteriorating tenements were not a fact or a given; that they could be something else, and better.
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The 2004 rezoning had helped transform Downtown Brooklyn's low-slung offices, lofts and tenements into a gleaming new neighborhood of towers.
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The designations recognize the development of model tenements in Ridgewood in the early 20th century, according to a 2010 commission report.
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Nearly 80 percent of units there, which are in five- to eight-story tenements, are under some form of rent regulation.
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Tenements along Columbus and rowhouses on the nearby side streets soon followed, Mr. Tauber wrote on the Columbus Amsterdam BID's website.
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Seating was at a communal table — or out back in the "garden," a narrow patch of concrete between dirty-brick tenements.
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By the end of the century, many of these tenements would be demolished under the Glasgow City Improvements Act of 1867.
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Tenements built specifically for poor residents sprang up between 1820 and 1850, but even these new buildings were extremely cramped and overcrowded.
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Through the late 1960s and early '70s, tenements were demolished and more than 1,800 families — most of them Puerto Rican — were displaced.
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Plumes of white smoke rose over a row of tenements as firefighters on adjoining rooftops tried to prevent the blaze from spreading.
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Restrictive hiring and housing covenants confined Black people to ghettos and tenements, and often left Black men unable to find steady employment.
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Renters in walk-up tenements used to be stuck with these "tiny little baths," said Mr. Harris of AKI, the Queens developer.
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During that period, Robert Moses had demolished tenements, displacing and dispersing the ethnically diverse communities that had long called the area home.
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Julia Wertz's new black-and-white book of comics, Tenements, Towers & Trash, is a stirring ode to America's most densely populated metropolis.
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Lee's buildings still stand, as do the old tenements, and it is easy enough to take a nostalgic walk through the old Chinatown.
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Delicate, soft-spoken Julio spends a year shunted between poorly paid menial jobs, sleeping in miserly tenements while he searches for his love.
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Yet in the warren of alleys, workshops and tenements that is Old Delhi, Mallika, with a defiant gleam, is having none of it.
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Down Grand Avenue, though, are tiny houses and tenements where the first Caribbeans lived (still do, in fact) when they arrived in Miami.
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In 19223, New York State banned tenements, and toilets, natural light and ventilation were added to existing buildings to make them more sanitary.
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She sent nurses to new mothers living in the city's tenements and had those nurses instruct them in how to care for infants.
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Her father was a laborer, and the family of eight lived on East 65th Street, back when it was a hive of tenements.
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When they develop in boardinghouses or tenements they will be promptly removed to city hospitals, and held under strict observation and treated there.
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Beginning in the 19073s they crammed themselves into tenements on lower Washington Street and opened restaurants, bakeries and newsstands selling Arabic-language publications.
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It incorporates families who live in expensive prewar apartment buildings, in shabby tenements and in a number of public housing complexes scattered throughout.
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In "Ravan and Eddie" (1995), his breakout English novel, he took readers into the chawls, Mumbai's squalid tenements, where his main characters live.
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The Hungarian-born photographer Arnold Eagle, in his "One Third of a Nation" series, captures children in tenements and rabbis at the yeshiva.
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But all this flamboyance has almost nothing to do with the kind of decoration that makes old tenements and brownstones such a pleasure.
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" Surrounding the area were "graffiti-scarred tenements, nightclubs and a smattering of newly renovated dwellings where apartments sell for as much as $450,000.
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Sometimes he photographed machine engines and other innovations directly, as if taking their portrait, with the same steady eye that shot the tenements.
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The Lotus Garden is the only open area for about 200,000 people who live in cramped and squalid tenements abutting the city's biggest landfill.
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For more than a century, nurses have worked to keep people healthy, venturing out to schools, tenements, remote communities, coal mines, and factory floors.
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Tenements were the city's answer to the flood of immigrants who had to find homes among the blooming population within the strict grid system.
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It's all enough to make the few tenements remaining, like those on West 23rd and West 29th Streets, seem small and plain by comparison.
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These are the tenements of Dublin, circa 1920s, where O'Casey's tragicomic characters live and drink and pray and mourn in the midst of war.
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This is how they looked before they stepped into a new life, most likely spent in tenements or trying to learn how to farm.
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M2 Cobalt has tenements across a region that includes a former copper and cobalt mine run that was closed after being sold the Ugandan government.
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It's not the only one, as shown by an analysis of government data for Reuters by McMahon Mining Title Services, with unclaimed tenements now scarce.
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Working women were soon exposed to an array of potential mates, but many lived in tenements or boarding houses that were unfit for hosting callers.
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About a 10-minute walk away, tucked into a nondescript block of tenements stands a grand building of a different era: the Eldridge Street Synagogue.
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Editorial On the face of it, anyone living in one of the ubiquitous five-story tenements ringing central Moscow should be happy to move out.
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My Hell's Kitchen neighborhood in New York is known for its ornate Victorian tenements, now beloved for the very curlicues that once won them abuse.
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Many of the tenements Neel and her sitters inhabited gave way to cruciform housing projects; others, more recently, have been replaced by cookie-cutter condos.
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The Whitney Museum of American Art has lent a view of tenements by Franz Kline and an aerial photograph of Rockefeller Center by Andreas Feininger.
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Megalith sought to acquire a synagogue next door and a building behind the tenements, on 65th Street, owned by the Jewish Guild for the Blind.
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My partner and I eventually lucked into a Manhattan Avenue apartment that neighbored one of the now-shuttered Polish restaurants drawn in Tenements, Towers & Trash.
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Newcrest will acquire a 70 percent joint-venture interest in, and operatorship of, the Red Chris mine and surrounding tenements, the company said in a statement.
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Its main structure stands at the same height as the neighboring tenements, but it's topped by a pagoda roof; its red columns also set it apart.
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In Nairobi's slums, where people of dozens of different tribes live side by side in crude tenements and tin shacks, anger could overflow into ethnic violence.
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His family lived in other tenements on the Lower East Side, until his mother married his stepfather, Francisco Saez, and they moved into 19473 Orchard Street.
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"My son-in-law calls these cabanas tenements by the sea," said Theresa Luisi of Mill Basin, Brooklyn, who has been a member for 26 years.
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After that mid-'60s heyday, many immigrants had departed the tenements, plane travel was no longer limited to the rich and the Irish became, well, American.
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I passed mosques and minarets, and tube-lit chawls (tenements), where behind grille windows a thousand evening meals were being prepared and a thousand televisions flashed.
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Known among his followers as "Daddy", Gawli's stronghold in Mumbai was the Dagdi Chawl, a colony of seven buildings that houses families in one-room tenements.
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Like any of the greatest old tenements, the new building has more details than can be cataloged; its plenty recalls the abundance of the natural world.
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In 1503, a minority partner in Mr. Barnett's project, Megalith Capital, bought three adjoining tenements for $85 million on West 66th Street, off Central Park West.
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After tenements on the site were razed in 2000, it sat empty for decades while city officials, community representatives, developers and lawmakers fought over its future.
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On one side of the street, dilapidated 23.8th-century brick tenements with multiple occupants in each building, with a white van moving vehicle loading up outside.
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Atlas operates in the iron ore rich Pilbara region of Western Australia and has undeveloped tenements that could potentially be brought into production with a larger partner.
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MCNY recently had an exhibition on the photographs of Jacob Riis, who documented the 19th-century squalor of the tenements, including those on the Lower East Side.
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Pembroke last year ago paid A$104 million for three mine tenements from Peabody and was looking for more mines to feed long-term demand from Asia.
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At the same time, millions of Americans — many of them immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe — were huddled in urban tenements and yoked to the factory clock.
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In the early 143th century, Ridgewood attracted Germans, Italians and other European immigrants who found refuge from Manhattan's crowded tenements in its spacious brick and stone townhouses.
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The city's housing landscape in the 19th Century included tenements, which began as subdivided structures that had been built for other purposes, such as single-family homes.
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" Pullman's invented universe is a wonder to behold, but so is the meticulously drawn world of New York City in Julia Wertz's graphic homage, "Tenements, Towers & Trash.
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They don't mean overcrowded tenements, but places where people live close enough to one another to walk where they need to go and to support one another.
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Mining sector sources said larger miners such as Fortescue would likely have a priority list of several hundred tenements it would like to explore and possibly mine.
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Like Jacob Riis in New York, who used his own version of the magnesium flash to photograph the city's squalid tenements, photography was an advocacy tool for Shiras.
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If the exemption was not granted, the Mount Holland tenements could become liable for forfeiture, which would require a separate process that could take a further 12 months.
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Within the cramped rooms of the tenements, these stories offer a sense of what it would have been like to live so closely to a potentially fatal disease.
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His narrative ascends to the White House and descends to the squalid tenements in which the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven hung sardine can lids from her ears.
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Century-old brick tenements stand shoulder to shoulder with shiny buildings like the Chrystie, where the lowest monthly rent for a studio on its website recently was $3,595.
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New York is depicted more often than not at night, its citizens at emotional extremes, its tenements and storefronts often disfigured by violence of one sort or another.
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In New York, families were instructed to keep sick members in their rooms and limit contact with them; patients living in cramped tenements were isolated in city hospitals.
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Now, his furniture-making company creates tables, chairs, walls, cabinets, coasters and anything else a customer wants from dead trees, demolished water towers and razed 19th-century tenements.
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AT A street corner in Kangemi, a neighbourhood of tin-roofed shacks and new brick tenements in the west of Nairobi, men huddle into what are called street parliaments.
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This movie has a lot of downtown, a lot of the rave scene which Gillian remembers, and Tompkins Square Park, the tenements of Alphabet City, the Midtown office buildings.
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The majority of New York City's population in the 19th Century lived in sub-standard conditions as vulnerable and low-income populations were housed in cramped and dangerous tenements.
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Snaking through this land of ornate temples with golden Buddhas, soaring condo towers and endless street markets, gleaming malls and moldy tenements, is one of Thailand's most important waterways.
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The 230 Race Ronald Reagan visited the South Bronx in the summer of 103, when Charlotte Street was still lined with vacant lots and the rubble of toppling tenements.
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Located in a cluster of housing projects, it was racially diverse, with Chinese students from the surrounding tenements, Black and Latino families from the projects, and white families from Tribeca.
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Many have lived there for decades, their one-room tenements and low-rise homes dwarfed by the gleaming glass and chrome office towers and luxury hotels that dot the city.
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The squat tenements are perfectly suited for businesses, with living and sleeping spaces sitting atop work spaces, workers spilling into the alleys, and material stacked outside and on roof tops.
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Nearly 21950 percent of Algeria's 21970 million people now live in cities along the northern coast, often in slums or in densely packed 21960s tenements rife with drugs and crime.
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The Alienist takes place in a 19th century New York in which disease spread quicker than office gossip, and tenements seemed to wobble under the weight of too many inhabitants.
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Yet when Moscow's municipal government offered residents equivalent apartments in modern buildings farther from town so that thousands of the tenements could be razed, they promptly took to the streets.
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The company flirted with Washington Square Park and Columbus Circle, and finally found a new home when city planners decided to raze acres of West Side tenements, plotting urban renewal.
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This new series plops modern families into dismal dwellings resembling 1860s London tenements, with five to a bedroom and a single outdoor toilet and water pump for all to share.
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Maher walks a mile to his apartment — "It is my only exercise," he said — in the Third Settlement, a grid of dun-colored tenements at the edge of the desert.
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That means the company that first lodges its application for newly available leases - known as mineral tenements - on a government register wins the right to explore, and then possibly mine.
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Fortescue, which began mining in 2008 and is now a A$14 billion company, holds mineral tenements covering close to 70,000 sq km, an area almost as big as Ireland.
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But when he visited cigar makers in their tenements, he was appalled to find whole families suffering from eye, skin and lung ailments caused by prolonged exposure to raw tobacco.
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The tenements where the residents of Catfish Row live are starkly suggested (by the set designer Michael Yeargan) with isolated wood beams that frame two tiers of interconnected rooms and spaces.
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Public housing in the United States was created in part as a response to a public health crisis caused by overcrowded, unsafe, unhealthy tenements at the beginning of the 20th century.
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"Prior to being able to access digital systems, any customer (company or individual) could come to DMP and obtain official title searches for as many tenements as they required," Oliver said.
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On both sides of the street, the larger apartments divided into tenements, as if driven by some furious biological process—one room splitting into two, two becoming four, and four, eight.
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Her early life was spent in the hardscrabble milieu of Hoboken, N.J., tenements, but in the postwar boom her family moved to a house in Ridgefield, a more suburban New Jersey town.
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Supposedly set in "a spoOoOoky town in mythical Connecticut where inequality reigns," the world of the play feels exactly like, you know, Bushwick, with its tenements and wine bars cheek by jowl.
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Hundreds of thousands of immigrants fleeing poverty and persecution were arriving on its doorstep every year, but most of them were effectively marooned, herded into dark, squalid tenements in disease-ridden slums.
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Fortescue's aggressive approach to securing tenements has helped it build a much bigger Pilbara landbank than larger rivals BHP and Rio, despite them having been in the area for several decades longer.
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People were still out, jostling with each other in narrow lanes and still crowding into bus shelters, sleeping eight to a room in shabby tenements, and showing the impossibility of maintaining social distance.
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People were still out, jostling with each other in narrow lanes and still crowding into bus shelters, sleeping eight to a room in shabby tenements, and showing the impossibility of maintaining social distance.
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Newcrest said on Monday it would buy a 70 percent joint-venture interest in, and operatorship of, the Red Chris mine and surrounding tenements in British Columbia from Toronto-listed Imperial Metals Corp.
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Read This" Talia Winiarsky, Horace Mann School, New York, N.Y.: "How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York" by Jacob Riis and "'What Is Going to Happen to Us?
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On a standard Manhattan lot, tenements often occupied 26 or more percent of that space via building types like the so-called "double-decker," giving rise to the stale air, dark conditions, and overcrowding.
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Surveys of two hundred and twenty-five buildings identified foundations that needed bolstering, leaning tenements that had to be propped up, and detaching façades that had to be reinforced, all on the taxpayer dime.
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A friend gave me the first of that series, "My Brilliant Friend," for a long plane ride (a couple of months before "the outing"), and I was swept up into the tenements of Naples.
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With its crowded tenements and slums, New York City was particularly hard hit, and 200 New Yorkers perished in the frigid temperatures, prompting passionate civic action aimed at improving transit, infrastructure, and disaster management. 3.
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Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting and mining services group Mineral Resources are waging a bidding battle for Atlas, which operates in the iron ore rich Pilbara region of Western Australia and has undeveloped tenements.
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Mr. Maristany's photos, which he calls "a reflection of a love affair that I've had with my community," show smiling faces among the tenements of East Harlem and pulse with the rhythms of the city.
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For all the theatricality of the production, which relies on a rotating set that suggests a row of tenements in Charleston, the staging is essentially traditional; Camille A. Brown's inventive choreography is its boldest element.
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Luxury buildings that have sprouted beside the High Line have increasingly walled off what was the park's original charm and fascination — the urban adjacencies and "Rear Window" views into and onto old warehouses and tenements.
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In stark contrast to the slums of Lower Manhattan, which were crowded with tenements, the area around the border between Kings and Queens Counties was barren and, thus, an ideal location for numerous human remains.
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Facing the walk-ups is an example of the housing type that prompted the bulldozing of similar tenements: the sweeping La Guardia public housing development from 1957, where 1,094 apartments are populated by 153,513 residents.
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On your average evening, the street swarms with the beautiful and the damned, the boutiques lit with industrial lighting; the bars offer cocktails that use kumquat and Turkish bitters; the restaurants hide under beautiful sandstone tenements.
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Nearby is a symbolic attempt to prevent easy access: an actual example of the sticklike door-to-floor locks endemic to unrehabilitated New York lofts and tenements — a madeleine for creative types of a certain age.
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New York's B393 is all that remains of the trolley car system across the Williamsburg Bridge, which opened in 1903, and carried many immigrants from the tenements of the Lower East Side to Brooklyn and beyond.
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In a 1907 essay published in the North American Review, Percy Stickney Grant argued for summer training camps for young men in growing up in city tenements, noting that overcrowding and underfeeding had diminished their strength.
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That common belief allowed the wealthy and high-class to believe that their relatively better health had as much to do with their inherent superiority as it did with not having to starve in rat-infested tenements.
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Tenements that largely lacked natural light and air filled the city blocks without regulation and an 1865 hygiene and public health report found that more than 65% of the city's population was living in substandard housing conditions.
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With rents ever higher in Chelsea's old garages and the Lower East Side's tenements, nearly a dozen homesteading dealers have moved to a few blocks of terra nullius hemmed in by SoHo, TriBeCa and the Civic Center.
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The amendment is designed to prohibit the practice of lodging successive exploration applications for particular tenements, thereby quarantining them from rivals, a tactic sometimes used by miners to hold on to prospective ground they can't immediately explore.
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Along with the appearance of electric lights and underground public transportation in the growing city, was after-hours entertainment amid its illuminated streets for both the thriving newly rich and the lower classes, often living in overcrowded tenements.
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When: November 20183, 2017–April 8, 2018 Where: Bronx Museum (1040 Grand Concourse, Concourse, the Bronx) In the 1970s, Gordon Matta-Clark ventured into abandoned tenements in the Bronx and made cuts in the floors, creating disorienting spaces.
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With much less drama than attended its demise in the East Village, Uogashi reopened in January on a block of West 953st Street characterized by vintage tenements, low-rise hotels and restaurants catering to the theater-district crowd.
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NEW YORK An article last Sunday about how two Manhattan buildings would look if they were built according to current codes misidentified the law that resulted in the development of so-called dumbbell tenements throughout New York City.
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Through live music and recordings, the Tenement Museum offers a chance to hear and learn about the sounds of the New York tenements, from what was played at beer saloons to what women sang while doing house chores.
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Volunteering at an immigration center, Lazarus felt deeply empathetic for the plight of immigrants, particularly Russian Jews, who would eventually live in disease-ridden tenements and face the anti-Semitism she, despite being wealthy and educated, endured herself.
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The show's curators, Nicholas Dagen Bloom, a scholar and advocate of public housing, and Matthias Altwicker, a Brooklyn architect, document the various ways midcentury public housing reformers replaced slum tenements mostly with far less dense forms of urbanism.
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The neighborhoods developed around the subway still featured apartment buildings rather than single-family houses, but the buildings were of higher quality than the old tenements — they had fire escapes, indoor plumbing, and better access to natural light.
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"The first time I visited New York, prior to moving there, the subway was my first experience of the city," reads Wertz's all-caps narrative copy in Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City.
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Mr. Kirchheimer's protagonists are not the graffiti writers but New York's battered, near-derelict subway cars, stolidly rolling through bombed-out Bronx neighborhoods and toward Brooklyn's beaches, past cemeteries, abandoned tenements and the acceptable graffiti of garish advertising posters.
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"In acquiring tenements Fortescue operates in compliance with the Mining Act, and in terms of government material accesses the same information at the same time as is available to its competitors and the general public," a Fortescue spokesman said.
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They also exerted their influence and spent their money on the building of the subways and the first limited-access highway (the Bronx River Parkway), the opening of early public high schools and libraries and the upgrades in tenements.
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Anglo American told Reuters it has recently been granted or is seeking permits over almost 11,000 square km of land in Queensland state, while iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group raised its exploration tenements by a third last year.
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So far HK Urbex has released more than three dozen videos documenting their perambulations through derelict prisons, tenements, cinemas, hospitals, casinos, police stations, bomb shelters, subway tunnels, a shipwreck and other sites across Hong Kong and elsewhere in Asia.
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I headed east and then north along the edge of Monterrey, through industrial suburbs and fenced compounds of bleak tenements, east to Cadereyta Jiménez — notorious for gangs — to Cerralvo (a restaurant, a gas pump), following signs to Ciudad Mier.
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The best of Mr Trump's supporters hope that, by letting a wrecking ball loose to demolish the slums and tenements of Washington politics, public life can be rebuilt—so that it represents real people, rather than elites and interest groups.
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Anarchitect debuted last year at the Bronx Museum, which placed a rightful emphasis on the cuts Matta-Clark made into abandoned tenements in the Bronx, such as "Bronx Floor: Boston Road" (1), part of his "Bronx Floors: Thresholes" (1972) series.
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Palmer, a law school dropout, made his first fortune in his early 5003s by selling beach property in Queensland, before buying into a string of mining tenements in Western Australia just as the mining boom was set to take off.
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TENEMENT CHIC ON THE UPPER EAST SIDE (Sunday) The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy hosts this architecture-minded walk uptown in which the focus is not on mansions and townhouses, but on the ornate tenements that dot the neighborhood's side streets.
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Beijing is a cultural, technological and commercial capital as well as a political one, and the tenements on its outskirts are home to tens of thousands of hopeful young college graduates who have moved here seeking better jobs and better lives.
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Meanwhile, my parents, who had grown up in New York tenements, were vaguely horrified that their affluent privileged grandchild was acknowledged to have what they thought of as a mark of disgrace, an infestation that went with poverty and dirt.
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"In acquiring tenements, Fortescue operates in compliance with the Mining Act, and in terms of government material accesses the same information at the same time as is available to its competitors and the general public," she said in an emailed response.
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"BHP Billiton does not subscribe to any regular payment for tenement register extracts in order to identify surrendered and withdrawn tenements prior to daily release of the RSS feed," BHP said in an emailed response to questions about its practices.
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Mr. Orta's neighborhood is in full-blown transition, an uneasy blend of crumbling tenements and freshly painted restored Victorian homes; grocery shops catering to the Latino working class and boutiques selling "small-batch chocolates," designer sunglasses and fine leather shoes.
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Built at the turn of the 21.2th century, No. 2334 is two buildings in one: virtually identical "dumbbell" tenements — so called because they fill the width of the lot at either end but are narrower in the middle to create a light court.
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Mining stocks climbed up to 28 percent led by Galaxy Resources, which jumped 2611.98 percent to its best in more than two months after announcing the sale of certain lithium mining tenements in Argentina to South Korean steelmaker POSCO for $23 million.
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While "The Holdouts" spotlights the grittiness of New York tenements, "Broker," a short film by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, rubs some of the veneer off a spotless three-bedroom on the 77th floor of Trump World Tower at 2 United Nations Plaza.
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A centerpiece of his show, "The Preying Hands" (1985), is fronted by a prayer-kneeler, while in the background tenements are like small objects in a greater ideological conspiracy, the paper buildings scaled to a psychological-size equivalent of Perrier bottles and tennis player figurines.
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"Pandemic" contains vivid descriptions of the tenements of New York in the 1850s, when nearly six times as many people were packed into one square mile (2.6 sq km) as there are in Manhattan today, and sewage covered the streets, seeping into the drinking water.
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From about 1880 to 1900, conditions in tenements were so dire that "as many as four or five families were routinely housed in apartments intended for one," Luc Sante wrote in "Low Life" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991), a history of New York's underclass.
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A range of midskilled jobs gave the children and grandchildren of those immigrants the chance to leave urban tenements and drought-ridden farms to assimilate into a thriving American middle class with a car in the garage and a summer vacation at an upstate lake.
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Unlike the city's existing tenements — those greasy, cholera-ridden death traps described in books like Jacob Riis's "How the Other Half Lives" — apartments offered amenities like telephones, electric lighting, commercial refrigerators, private dining rooms and ground-floor restaurants that could deliver food to your unit.
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Nearly 6,500 mostly black and Hispanic people reside in Queensbridge Houses' 26 aging brick tenements, which sit near the Queensboro Bridge, across the East River from Manhattan's wealthy Upper East Side and less than three miles from the hulking glass tower that bears Trump's name.
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Cucuta is a city with one of Colombia&aposs highest unemployment rates in a region that is a hotbed for drug-related violence, and Venezuelan families that get stuck here often live 10 to a room in tenements with no beds that rent for $17 a week.
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Historians argue that this relationship was born in the multicultural tenements of Lower Manhattan at the turn of the 20th century, where Jews embraced the food sold by their Chinese neighbors as less self-evidently treyf than the Italian and Polish storefronts that held sausages and ham.
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The exhibition "La Lucha Continua The Struggle Continues, 19403 & 21940," at the Loisaida Center, documents a monumental piece of that work: a series of 21965 murals painted in 28 and 1986 on the sides of four tenements surrounding an empty lot turned garden called La Plaza Cultural.
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BlackRock, the giant financial company that manages $5 trillion in assets, reached an agreement on Wednesday to move from a prestigious Park Avenue address to a neighborhood on the Far West Side of Manhattan that was once home to warehouses, rail yards, tenements, dockworkers and teamsters.
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On the other, the tenements had been demolished, and a faux-modern brick apartment building entitled the Olmstead Luxury Residences (note the cute misspelling of Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of nearby Prospect Park) was being completed with the addition of unbreakable Samsung CCTV cameras every fifty feet.
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The sprawling slum in the heart of Mumbai is a lively amalgam of flimsy tarpaulin-covered shacks, one-room brick tenements with tin roofs and multi-storied buildings, as well as schools, temples and mosques and scores of small businesses, ranging from auto repair shops to textile units.
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Seeing New York through Cain's eyes gives us a bracing new perspective as his efforts to identify the corpse take him from the German enclave of Yorkville in Upper Manhattan to the tenements of the Lower East Side, where a mysterious man called Maximilian Danziger performs a unique service.
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The exhibit's wall text explains that 19th-century philanthropists such as John D. Rockefeller were moved by the squalid conditions of tenements, which were concentrated in poorer neighborhoods, had little light or ventilation, and were ground zero for epidemics such as the 1849 cholera outbreak that killed 5,000 people.
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Photographs that emphasize the mise-en-scène could be movie stills: a shouting circus executive who takes up the right side of the foreground while aerialists rehearse in the middle distance, a boy climbing to a roof with the city tenements surrounding him, a subway car filled with sleeping passengers.
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But chasing the album would become something of a journey, one that would take me far from present-day Brooklyn to the Jim Crow South, from a remote island in the Pacific to the packed tenements of Harlem, before returning me to Lincoln Place at another moment of great change.
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Starting in the late 1950s, Robert Moses, then head of the city's Committee on Slum Clearance, sought to demolish the tenements south of Delancey Street, many of them built before 1900, and transform a neighborhood that was home to a mix of Puerto Ricans, African-Americans, Italians, Asians and Jews.
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A century-old backyard, walled in on three sides by tenements four stories high and stacked with other folks' windows, other folks' lives, their ages and stages, their phone wires and drainpipes, slate roofs and all the disused chimneys above the roofs near silhouetted against a sky that's glowing white between grayish clouds.
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The roughly 30 layers of paint and 20 layers of wallpaper in the old apartment building, now the Tenement Museum, are "the very evidence of people coming to these tenements — which are so often associated with cramped, crowded, dirty conditions — and looking for some kind of beauty for their space," Mr. Murphy said.
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But when I step out from my white-cube apartment, I find a different kind of pleasure that's equally thrilling: My New York neighborhood is full of Victorian tenements covered in a riot of decoration, from carved heads and scallop shells to flower garlands and twisting columns that don't hold anything up.
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The riot may have started at the park, but it ended, perhaps fittingly, across the street on Avenue B at the Christodora, which had converted two years before as a luxury condominium high-rise in Alphabet City, and had become a glaring totem of privilege in a neighborhood that was still littered with gutted tenements.
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Amid a mix of Federal townhouses, former tenements and brick factories (some of them co-ops), there are modern condos like 497 Greenwich Street and 323 Renwick, soon to be joined by 565 Broome Street, a 115-unit complex designed by Renzo Piano for Bizzi & Partners Development, Aronov Development and Halpern Real Estate Ventures.
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Remnants of the old neighborhood — the tenements, bodegas and bakeries, the building that once held Bialystoker Center & Home for the Aged, Kossar's Bagels and Bialys, Ming's Caffe, 239 Bar, the Sweet Life candy store — sit alongside newcomers: the condo towers, Ice & Vice, a store serving craft ice cream, and Malt & Mold, which offers cheeses and craft beer.
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So while the notorious Lower East Side tenements described by Jacob Riis in "How the Other Half Lives" packed in some 1,183 people per acre, leaving only 13 percent of the tenement blocks as open space, Queensbridge Houses in Queens, from 1939 — one of the largest public housing complexes in North America — was built for 245 people per acre.
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Gary Waldron, a Bronx-born IBM manager, refused to quietly tend his own garden; instead, working with the nonprofit Group Live-In Experience, he planted one the size of a city block in the East Tremont section of his neglected native borough, setting it among the torched buildings and slumlord tenements, with the goal of giving jobs to disadvantaged youth.
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And its salar de pozuelos tenements in northern argentina * LSC Lithium Corp says aggregate purchase price was paid by issuance of 31.2 million lsc common shares and payment of $12.9 million in cash * LSC Lithium Corp says consideration paid to lim was made in exchange for assignment by lim to lsc lithium of a loan in amount of $5.5 million Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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For instance, after Jacob Riis published his class book, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, published in 1890, emphasizing the deplorable living and working conditions of European immigrants and the poor in cities, it didn't take long for government officials and future planners to seek housing solutions, such as housing codes that most of us currently take for granted.
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Kidnappings and mayhem were common; in the manufacturing town of Cadereyta Jiménez (broom factory, oil refinery, workers' tenements) five municipal employees were massacred in 2012, and in the same year, in San Juan, a town just 75 miles southwest of Roma, 49 bodies were discovered dumped on the federal highway I'd traveled, all of them decapitated and dismembered, all of them young men, and none of them (because of the butchery) easily identifiable.
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Mr. Daniel's next three movies were "Like Father Like Son" (1987), an identity-switching comedy that starred Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron and grossed $43 million domestically; "K-9" (1989), a buddy comedy that featured Jim Belushi as a police officer partnered with a German shepherd and made $43 million in the United States; and "The Super" (1991), in which Joe Pesci played a slumlord compelled by court order to live in one of his own tumbledown tenements.
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