For centuries, differing perspectives on housing density have shaped and reshaped New York City. In a new exhibition at the Skyscraper Museum, Housing Density: From Tenements to Towers, visitors can ...

Spying flames vomiting from a Manhattan tenement one night last week, a scavenging junkman named Roderick Good turned in an alarm. In their beds in the five-story rookery lay more than 100 tenants.

Borscht? Kugel? Pastrami? What exactly did our ancestors eat when they first immigrated to the United States? This was the question on the table for discussion at a recent “Beard on Books” evening at ...

FALL RIVER — History has left the city with landmarks, with mills, with streets and stories. Still, more than anything else, time has left us with the tenement house. Thousands of them. The ...

This is the second in a series of pieces about the development of multiple-unit housing in Brooklyn. Starting at the bottom of the economic ladder and moving up tenements. There have been tenement ...