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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    under section 62 of the Law of Property Act 1925. If it can be shown that without a profit à prendre, the dominant tenement will be incapable of enjoyment...
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    originates from Amravati, where he still has relatives. He grew up in a tenement for the impoverished working class called Ram Bachan Chawl, located in...
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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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    taken on the last name of his foster parents, with whom he lived in a tenement in the Kleindeutschland neighborhood in Lower East Side. He learned English...
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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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    The first game qualification law was instituted in 1389 under Richard II. It stated that anyone without lands or tenements of 40 shillings a year, or clergyman...
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