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• n  a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards

• Leela Corman's emotionally raw tenement story of a young girl facing the mysteries of womanhood looks almost like a child's therapy comic.
• Twenty years ago a squib on the radio page of the old New York Evening World noted that "the story of a cloak-and-suit operator's climb from a dingy tenement to Park Avenue will be.
• Spying flames vomiting from a Manhattan tenement one night last week, a scavenging junkman named Roderick Good turned in an alarm.

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News & Articles

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• Lower East Side Tenement Museum Celebrated with Gala Event; Nearly Doubled Funds Raised
  The Lower East Side Tenement Museum celebrated its 25th anniversary and the 150th anniversary of its historic landmark tenement at 97 Orchard Street with an extraordinary gala event that immersed guests in the vibrant culture of the Lower East Side. The event raised more than $700,000, nearly double the amount raised at the previous gala. (PRWeb June 14, 2013) Read the full story at http://www ...
  June 14, 2013 - PRWeb
• SIDE STREETS: East Main Street, where one man lost his life
  There are no tourist attractions on East Main Street. On the corner of East Main and Slade, there’s A.J.’s Bar & Grill. Across Slade Street from the bar — in a concrete, 1-foot-wide strip of tenement side yard — a painted concrete statue of the Sacred Heart spreads his arms in benediction. Diagonally to this, on East Main Street, a green street sign bolted to a backyard shed reads, “Yawkey Way ...
  June 14, 2013 - Fall River Herald News

Quotes

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• Jeremy Clarkson in Metro
  Clarkson said in his column: "And so, figuring that attack was probably the best form of defence, I grabbed the ringleader by his hoodie, lifted him off the ground and explained, firmly, that it'd be best if he went back to his tenement. I was...
• Peter Wright in WA today
  People are digesting and taking a view as to the likely conclusion of that tenement sale,said Peter Wright, dealer at Burrell & Co.
• Ricky Ian Gordon in Broadway World
  Composer Ricky Ian Gordon says of his new work, "When my father came home from World War II in 1945, my family lived in a crowded tenement in the Bronx, poor and with bed bugs. Then my parents got the idea to move to the suburbs where the dream of...