New Law Tenements were built in New York City following the New York State Tenement House Act of 1901, so-called the "New Law" to distinguish it from...
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Old Law Tenements are tenements built in New York City after the Tenement House Act of 1879 and before the New York State Tenement House Act ("New Law")...
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The New York State Tenement House Act of 1901 banned the construction of dark, poorly ventilated tenement buildings in the U.S. state of New York. Among...
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Scotland, these are now governed by the Tenements Act, which replaced the old Law of the Tenement and created a new system of common ownership and procedures...
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Side Tenement Museum is a museum and National Historic Site located at 97 and 103 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York...
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the poor. Tenement may also refer to: Tenement (law), a concept in property or mining law Tenement (band), an American rock band Tenement (film), a 1985...
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Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot is a black and white photograph taken by Danish-American photographer Jacob Riis, in 1889. It was...
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strikes Tenants' strike of 1907 Old Law Tenement New Law Tenement Lawson, Ronald (May 1984). "The Rent Strike in New York City, 1904–1980: The Evolution...
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How the Other Half Lives (redirect from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York)
among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City...
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2015 East Village gas explosion (category 2015 in New York City)
All three buildings were five-story tenements; #121 and 123 were old-law buildings and #125 was a new-law tenement. On the day of the explosion, Con Edison...
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109 Washington Street (section “Old Law” Tenements)
109 Washington Street is a five-story tenement in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City, within the area once known as Little Syria. Due...
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1907 Old Law Tenement New Law Tenement New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 Rousseau, Victor (January 25, 1908). "Low Rent or No Rent": The Tenement Dwellers’...
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and three girls. The Law family were not well off and lived in a council tenement flat at Printfield Terrace in Woodside. He went barefoot until he was 12...
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piece of land, called the dominant tenement, which derives a benefit from another piece of land, the servient tenement, belonging to someone other than...
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not at the common law, whereas an easement can operate at either. An instrument that imposes a negative obligation on another tenement will normally be...
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Easement (redirect from Subservient tenement)
dominant estate or dominant tenement, while the land burdened by the easement is the servient estate or servient tenement. For example, the owner of parcel...
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the blight of many tenement areas, expanded new parks, remade streets, and restricted and reorganized zoning controls. For a while, New York ranked as the...
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both subvert, undermine, and overturn the new laws. Some early examples include trying to classify tenements as "hotels", falsifying tenant receipts, and...
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A. (1990). "Chapters 3 [Rich and Poor] & 4 [Beyond the Tenement]". History of Housing in New York City: Dwelling Type and Change in the American Metropolis...
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Washington Heights, Manhattan (redirect from Washington Heights, New York City)
the proliferation of five- and six-story New Law Tenements, the vast majority of which remain. Many of the new residents came from crowded immigrant neighborhoods...
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and linoleum. Mantilla Row, built c1795 – a tenement block demolished when it became structurally unsafe. New foundations and some walls have been laid...
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Manhattan in 1892. In 1901 the New York State Legislature passed the Tenement Housing Act of 1901, which established a city Tenement Housing Department, including...
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11, 2001, New York City was ruthlessly and criminally attacked. While no tribute can ever heal the pain of that day, the producers of Law & Order dedicate...
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Rates in Hong Kong (section Definition of Tenement)
separate tenement; and (ii)in the opinion of the Commissioner should be valued together with another tenement as a single tenement; (d)the tenement or part...
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Servient estate (redirect from Servient tenement)
is called the dominant estate (or dominant premises or dominant tenement). "Dominant tenement". Wex. Cornell Law School. Retrieved 15 May 2018. v t e...
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prematurely at 9:16 o'clock in the upper story or on the roof of the new seven-story model tenement house at 1,626 Lexington Avenue. "PBS Kids . Big Apple History"...
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Real estate (redirect from Real estate law)
or unit. Majority of housing in Indian metro cities are of these types. Tenement is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats...
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Lower East Side (redirect from New York’s Lower East Side)
although some improvement came from a change in the zoning laws, which required "new law" tenements to be built with air shafts between them so that fresh...
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Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan (redirect from Hell's Kitchen, New York City, New York)
No one can pin down the exact origin of the label, but some refer to a tenement on 54th Street as the first "Hell's Kitchen". Another explanation points...
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Tenement housing in Chicago was established in the late 19th and into the early 20th centuries. A majority of tenement complexes in Chicago were constructed...
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