The phrase "a block of tenements" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a group of residential buildings that contain multiple apartments or units, typically in an urban setting.
Example: "The city council plans to renovate a block of tenements to provide better living conditions for the residents."
Alternatives: "a row of apartments" or "a cluster of flats".
The Times described it as "a block of decaying tenements packed with poor Puerto Rican and Negro families and the gathering place of drunks, narcotics addicts and sexual perverts".
But when Weegee lived in a single room at 5 Centre Market Place from the mid-1930s to 1947, the street was a drab block of tenements inhabited by reporters and photographers who worked the crime beat.
The whole block of tenements was coming down.
THE Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation has proposed enlarging the 1969 Greenwich Village Historic District, extending it south through half a dozen blocks of tenements, almost to Canal Street.
A big change came to San Juan Hill after World War II when several square blocks of tenements, from West 61st to West 64th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues, just behind where Lincoln Center now stands, were demolished to make way for the Amsterdam Houses.
A polyglot collection of European immigrants and their children lived and worked in 18 blocks of tenements, storefronts and warehouses.
The Seward Park stalemate began in 1967, when the city razed 14 blocks of tenements and ousted 2,000 residents to make way for new retail and residential sites.
Many blocks of tenements were razed during the tunnel's construction in the 1930s and expansion in the '40s and '50s.
The creation of Seward Park — bordered by Hester, Norfolk, Division, and Essex Streets — had begun, in 1898, with the demolition of three blocks of tenement buildings.
The creation of Seward Park bordered by Hester, Norfolk, Division, and Essex Streets—had begun, in 1898, with the demolition of three blocks of tenement buildings.
