Sentence examples for crowded tenements from inspiring English sources
The camera moved through city streets, crowded tenements, and hotel corridors and played an integral role in the film by recording people and incidents through a limited point of view.
Yet for workers who lived through the upheaval, the experience of industrialisation was harsh: full of hard toil in crowded, disease-ridden cities.The modern digital revolution with its hallmarks of computer power, connectivity and data ubiquity has brought iPhones and the internet, not crowded tenements and cholera.
Raymond's version, for all its high-mindedness, faced daunting odds in a city of 500,000 (mostly living below 14th Street), which already had dozens of papers and teemed with businesses, crowded tenements, piers lined with ships and muddy streets awash with adventurers, greenhorns, whiskey-soaked toughs and thundering preachers.
It's a vestige of the hundreds of old German and Czech-style picnic parks that thrived all over the outer boroughs in the 1800's, when crowded tenements were hot and there was no place to stroll, except for the cemetery.
The crowded tenements once served by its demure theater are gone.
During the week, Mr. Lin took her to see the two crowded tenements where her husband had lived in Lower Manhattan.
The drab streets, crowded tenement apartments and grim factories are untouched by nostalgia or picturesqueness.
She said the rundown neighbourhood, crowded with tenements, had been in need of development, but not to the extreme that landlords had sold out to large developers building apartments for people moving to New York to work on Wall Street, while lower-income people were forced out.
Mr. Levine's 1981 poster campaign, "We Are Not Afraid," occupied ad space in the subways, boosting morale during a particularly gritty period in New York; more relevant to today, perhaps, is Anton Van Dalen's 1986 print "Luxury City," with its image of skyscrapers crowding out tenements.
Beggars, snow-shoveling squads, schooner crews, railroad commuters, subway crowds, tenement life, tugboats, a sidewalk craps game -- this is a romantic masterpiece of street photography.
Similar ones shocked George Orwell, who, in "The Road to Wigan Pier", described tenements crowded with poor families and bugs.
