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Many people had to share space with other families.
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What were large apartment buildings that were often loud dirty and crowded called?
Large apartment buildings that were loud, dirty, and crowded were called tenements. Also, they were infested with rats and disease spread quickly. (A tenant)
What was a result of the high rent charged by tenement owners?
Crowded apartments
Why were tenement apartments crowded?
One reason they were crowded is that many people had to share space with other families.
Did the dumbell tenement work?
Yes. I am sitting in one as I write and it works just fine. Although "tenement" has a negative connotation, the modern term is "apartment building". In New York City, the "new tenement law" of the early 1900s resulted in dumbbell-shaped buildings. This was done to create courtyards that permit every room of every apartment to have access to natural light and fresh air. Although the turn-of-the-century "old tenement law" was an improvement, it was in many ways insufficient. The old law required windows in every room, but did not say they had to open to the outside world. Consequently, developers built windows between rooms and transoms to evade that requirement and maximize income-producing floor space. Skylights and air shafts, too small for a person to fit through, satisfied the requirements for light and air, but proved inadequate and eventually collected trash at the bottom, where there was no easy way to clean it out. Under the new tenement law, transoms were outlawed and windows had to open to the outside. Most architects in New York City responded by creating dumbbell tenements, although in Jackson Heights, Queens, a different style was more popular: one in which all interior windows opened on an interior courtyard which featured a fountain and space for tenants to socialize. The dumbbell tenement, as an architectural type, in New York City is preferred by tenants over old law tenements (with air shafts), railroad apartments and other less airy arrangements.
What urban housing design turned out to be blight on the cityscape?
The Dumbbell Tenement
What is a sentence with tenement in it?
The old tenement building was crowded with small apartments, each occupied by multiple families struggling to make ends meet.
What was a large apartment building that was overly crowded and loud and dirty called?
ghetto
A large apartment building that was overly crowded and loud and dirty was?
A tenement
A large apartment building that was overly crowded and loud and dirty was called what?
A tenement
Who lived in the tenements?
Life in a tenement was not good. It was really small and crowded. There usually was many immigrant families living in one tenement apartment. There was no plumbing. You had to get water from a faucet on the main floor of the tenement and bring it back up to your apartment. If you had to go to the bathroom there was a bucket for the whole tenement and when it was full someone had to bring it out to the street and dump it.
An effect of crowded tenement living?
The spread of diseases is one effect of crowded tenement living.
Is tenement and verd?
Tenement is a noun, as in an apartment or a room rented by a tenant
What was a multistory building divided into crowded appartments?
A multistory building divided into crowded apartments was a tenement.
What were large apartment buildings that were often loud dirty and crowded called?
Large apartment buildings that were loud, dirty, and crowded were called tenements. Also, they were infested with rats and disease spread quickly. (A tenant)
What was a result of the high rent charged by tenement owners?
Crowded apartments
What are synonyms of tenement?
apartment, residence, public housing.
Sentence with the word tenement?
Freedom of speech is a central and sacred tenet of any democracy
