This building was designed by the philanthropic projecters to show the practicability of providing comfortable, well-ventilated tenements, secure against fire, and supplied with most modern ...
Together with her husband, they bought a three-bed flat in another tenement building with intentions of renting it out. This idea quickly changed, though, when the couple realised how much ...
The Lemberger Congregation Anshei Ashkenaz, converted into a church around 1970, is one of the last remaining tenement synagogue ... a four-story building at 256 East 4th Street, was built in ...
Currently, they live on the rooftop of a tong lau (tenement building) in Sham Shui Po, and have to climb 10 flights of stairs every time they come home. While it’s not uncommon for people to ...