Old Law Tenement
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old-law-tenement-300-4751356
title:
Old Law Tenement
text:
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 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
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1879 New York City law
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Law_Tenement
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date modified:
2024-02-15T19:49:10Z
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