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 ...

A recent Manhattan Tenement House Commissioner, a realistic Tammany jobholder, estimated that thorough slum-clearance in New York would take 250 years. Contact us at [email protected] ...

(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 ...