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IN a Stanton Street tenement, the other day, I stumbled upon a Polish capmaker’s home. There were other capmakers in the house, Russian and Polish, but they simply “lived” there. This one had a home.

ONE of the latest evidences of growing American civilization is the interest manifested in housing reform. Stimulated largely by the work of the New York Tenement House Commission of 1901, many cities ...

FALL RIVER — History has left the city with landmarks, with mills, with streets and stories. Still, more than anything else, time has left us with the tenement house. Thousands of them. The ...

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. New York didn't ...

In New York City, rapid growth and the imposition of the New York City street grid both played major roles in the look, density, and availability of housing for New Yorkers. Tenements originated from ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated. The new version can be seen here. For many of us, staycations are this year’s vacations. Instead of the cottages and castles of the Continent, visit one of ...

If you took a photo of pre-war Warsaw from space, you would notice two patches competing for your attention: the light enveloping the elegant part of the city and the shadowy cloud hanging over the ...

A one-time peninsular Charleston tenement house, transformed into a four-story mansion after the 1886 earthquake, recently changed hands in a deal that came with an unusual amenity: an oversized Santa ...

The Tenement House, which is operated by the National Trust for Scotland, is a kind of walk-in time capsule. Its restored rooms show how a particular Glaswegian, one Agnes Toward, lived from 1911 to ...