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  • And, back in high society, she would be That Daring Girl Who Spent a Year Slumming It in the Tenements.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • And, back in high society, she would be That Daring Girl Who Spent a Year Slumming It in the Tenements.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • Related in the 1980s acquired two complexes, the Terrific Tenements on West 47th and 48th streets and North Park at 20 W. 102nd St., with 210 units in total.

    Related Sets Housing Accord Laura Kusisto 2011

  • And, back in high society, she would be That Daring Girl Who Spent a Year Slumming It in the Tenements.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • And, back in high society, she would be That Daring Girl Who Spent a Year Slumming It in the Tenements.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • Tenements spring up like magic, gardens are built upon, villas are divided and subdivided into many dwellings, and the black night of London settles down in a greasy pall.

    MY LODGING AND SOME OTHERS 2010

  • From a chapter by Janet Hutchinson in “From Tenements to the Taylor Homes”:

    Matthew Yglesias » The High Cost of Subsidized Homeownership 2010

  • Tenements housed Italian, German, Irish and Jewish immigrants.

    Turtle Bay Draws Even More Than Diplomats 2010

  • Two of her works, adapted for the screen, were the aforementioned Hungry Hearts and Salome of the Tenements.

    Film Industry in the United States. 2009

  • Tenements full of recalcitrant low income tenants were torched by landlords eager to revitalize.

    Hoboken Tax Revolt: BYO Tar & Feathers 2009

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