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") of 1901. The 1879 law required that every habitable room have a window opening to plain air, a requirement that was met by including air shafts between adjacent buildings. Old Law Tenements are commonly called "dumbbell tenements" after the shape of the building footprint: the air shaft gives each tenement the narrow-waisted shape of a dumbbell, wide facing the street and backyard, narrowed in between to create the air corridor. They were built in great numbers to accommodate waves of immigrating Europeans. The side streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side are still lined with numerous dumbbell structures today.
OldLawTenements 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")...
law. In Scotland, these are now governed by the Tenements Act, which replaced the oldLaw of the Tenement and created a new system of common ownership and...
from the previous two Tenement House Acts of 1867 and 1879. New Lawtenements are distinct from "OldLaw" and "pre-law" tenements both in structural design...
except for in the front rooms. Most tenement houses built before the first tenementlaw in 1879, also known as the “oldlaw,” were constructed with little...
First Tenement House Act (1867) required fire escapes for each suite and a window for every room, the Second Tenement House Act (1879) ("OldLaw") closed...
New York State Tenement House Act. The first tenement house act was called The Tenement House Act of 1867, also known as "the OldLaw". It was the country's...
1918-20 New York City rent strikes Tenants' strike of 1907 OldLawTenement New LawTenement Lawson, Ronald (May 1984). "The Rent Strike in New York City...
well off and lived in a council tenement flat at Printfield Terrace in Woodside. He went barefoot until he was 12 years old and wore handed-down shoes throughout...
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...
1907 OldLawTenement New LawTenement New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 Rousseau, Victor (January 25, 1908). "Low Rent or No Rent": The Tenement Dwellers’...
of Guernsey. It has been established in the courts that Brecqhou is a tenement of Sark. The Ministry of Justice, the department of the United Kingdom...
building that became Umbrella House was constructed in 1899, under the OldLawTenement provisions, by architect Michael Bernstein. In 1900, the building was...
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid...
city's outskirts, it became the neighborhood of Five Points, becoming a tenement rookery following the economic depression of the Panic of 1837. The brewery...
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...
piece of land, called the dominant tenement, which derives a benefit from another piece of land, the servient tenement, belonging to someone other than...
right was restricted to the 39 original tenements required by the letters patent, the so-called 'Quarantaine Tenements' (French: quarantaine: a group of forty)...
Barnett Jaffe at 97 Orchard Street (current location of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum) in New York City, New York. His mother was a Yiddish actress in...
development. The first tenements in Morningside Heights were built toward the end of the 1890s and were among the only OldLawTenements built in the neighborhood...
floors. Tenementlaw refers to the feudal basis of permanent property such as land or rents. It may be found combined as in "Messuage or Tenement" to encompass...
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...