Thesaurus results for TENEMENTS

tenements

noun

plural of tenement

as in apartments

a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place an exhibit of pictures showing the tenements of the New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen during the 1920s

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Recent Examples of tenements No one wants to go back to the days of tenements and apartments with insufficient ventilation or light. —

Michael Schill, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026 The novel begins with a deadly fire that destroys two tenements. —

Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026 German Jews—my people—were far less numerous, most of them came to the United States earlier, and their typical first occupation was peddling, which entailed wandering through non-Jewish areas, not living in tenements. —

Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026 The tenements featured in Marty Supreme of course replicated those from the 1950s. —

India Roby, Architectural Digest, 27 Feb. 2026 More than half a million residents live in NYCHA development plagued by chronic mold, broken elevators, and heating failures; others reside in subpar tenements run by crooked landlords. —

Darius Jones, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026 There’s a row of five-story buildings off Fifth Avenue in Park Slope that seem to fit the neighborhood standard for prewar, working-class tenements — a central staircase divvying up ten dark railroad apartments. —

Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 Jan. 2026 The grotty tenements of the Lower East Side — and the distinct fashion within — is as much of a character in A24’s drama as the eponymous ping pong player himself. —

Anna Tingley, Variety, 27 Dec. 2025 The streets, tenements, fire-escapes, the elders, and the urgent concerns of childhood—or, rather, the helpless intensity of anguish with which one watches one’s childhood disappear—are rendered very vividly indeed by Louise Meriwether, in her first novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner. —

Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025

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Noun

The biggest issue in the Democratic primary was the Atlantic Yards project, a multibillion-dollar real-estate-development plan that sought to put a basketball arena and thousands of new apartments in downtown Brooklyn.

— Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
The first would convert the existing 58-room hotel at the corner of North First Street and East Rosemary Street to 58 apartments, planning files show.

— George Avalos, Mercury News, 18 May 2026