Under New York law a tenement is any building housing three families or more. But to a New Yorker tenements mean those built under the lax laws existing prior to 1901. All but four of the 48 ...

The Lemberger Congregation Anshei Ashkenaz, converted into a church around 1970, is one of the last remaining tenement synagogue ... Crain’s New York Business reported. The new six-story ...

They are called "old-law tenements" because they were built ... is a backlog of 120,000 applicants for public housing in the city of New York. Only 10 percent of the applicants make it in any ...

Four Hell’s Kitchen tenements previously owned by one of the most notorious landlords in New York City, Steve Croman, are on their way to being fully remodeled by a nonprofit. However, major ...

(JTA) — The Tenement Museum, which tells the stories of Jewish and other immigrants who lived on New York City’s Lower East Side, announced that it is laying off its tour guides and other part ...

THE EARLY YEARS — MARTIN FINE From the late 1960s until 1996, the strip of century-old tenement ... the New York Daily News reported at the time. The same day, Fine was due in housing court ...