took menial jobs. And we were living in this five-floor walk-up apartment tenement building infested with vermin and roaches.That was the first eight years of my life.
So it's very fitting. Tenement . Shebeen. The sunset sky behind and over it.
it's the color line teacher." Everyone around the country had reason to believe that Jim Jeffries would win, because they had been convinced that Tenements were set fire where blacks were living, blacks were shot and killed for celebrating too loudly
the noise and heat of the train, the looming shadow of steamers discharging immigrants on Indian Wharf where vendors sold peppered oyster soaked in vinegar near the overcrowded tenements . She loved th excitement and freedom of the city. With her family she had bounced between Boston and Concord over the years, but never had the chance to live in a cityon her own, to have the space and time to think and write. Since her father had announced the solution to their current financial whoas, his plan was to move the family here to Walpole,
I think we're doing OK. So tenements , overcrowded buildings, and the problem of just stuffing 10 times as many occupants into a single dwelling as it was designed for. This is a bad thing, and it's a bad thing because it leads to crime.
Yeah, it is funny. I mean, as you know, like it hardly ever gets mentioned. And he didn't really specifically he didn't use the word tenement square or uprising or anything or crushing that or anything like that. He just spoke about the problems during that time. So it was pretty opaque, although most Chinese people would get the reference.
You know the stoop. From the tenement . And she's like this. Oh, it would be on the other side, sorry.
I grew up on the Lower East Side in New York, and for the first five or six years of my life, I lived in a tenement house with my grandparents and my parents. And I don't know if you know the history of Lower East Side, but at the turn of last century, it probably
economy was. He wants to try and refocus attention dutin was a tough communist leader just after Tenement Square. Now, people would debate about whether or not he was or he wasn't, but you can see he he's trying to sort of make out that there's this unbroken connection between the great
I mentioned I'm in the Lower East Side. I actually did a tour at the Tenement Museum right down the street from me. And that actually used to house seven times as many people, I think, as live in the neighborhood now.
photojournalists, Jessie Tarbox Beals, who exposed both the despair of poverty and the drive towards respectability that she witnessed in the tenements of Newark, New Jersey. Flash, in other words, has been indispensable to the practice of documentary.
So saying that to a kid, you do it for these four years. So he sat in the candy store right near the tenement where he grew up.
Because then it was a war zone. Then there were heaps of trash burning and large tenements that were completely undealt with. It is the largest black community in the country, black neighborhood in the country.
And that actually used to house seven times as many people, I think, as live in the neighborhood now. But I remember there was a tour where you walk in a preserved tenement building from the-- it's 100 years that anyone's lived there. It's intact. And they actually pointed out in the tour how all the immigrants, they ended up having in the hallways
I just remember a scene in the play where it takes place in Harlem. And it's like up on 148th Street in Harlem And the rooftop of this tenement building is where these two kids go who live in the building.
My grandmother and grandfather came in to America in the 1920s, and they settled in a tenement in Chinatown, and they had six kids, one of them being my mother. And we all grew up in that one very small two-bedroom tenement house on Mott Street in Chinatown. And my mother, later on, moved out.
So they lost everything. And so during Millie's childhood, she was growing up in a tenement house, in kind of a dangerous neighborhood in the Bronx in New York City.
and he was here at a time when a lot of immigrants were working in factories and living in tenement buildings.
And you know, we lived that immigrant experience. My grandmother and grandfather came in to America in the 1920s, and they settled in a tenement in Chinatown, and they had six kids, one of them being my mother. And we all grew up in that one very small two-bedroom tenement house on Mott Street in Chinatown.
And when we moved to the Cape, we didn't live in tenement buildings that you found in the city.
I was back in the same neighborhood, my mom still lives in a tenement apartment on Rivington Street, rent controlled.
They'd leave her for days, they'd give her a little bit of money, and she'd have to get herself down the stairs of the tenement they
While the image of the Silicon Valley was futuristic, its methods were more that of 19th century tenements .
at every passerby. Foul streets, foul people, and foul tenements filled with foul air.