tenement house

Isaac Kremer/ September 9, 2018/ / 0 comments

A building occupied by more than one family and usually having suites of rooms, a public stairway, dumbwaiter, and toilet room common to two or more families on each floor, each suite consisting of a living room, with one or more bedrooms opening therefrom, and furnished with cold water supply and a chimney flue, and renting for less than $300 a year… Photo from New York City, New York, 2022. (Sturgis, 1900)