Word: tenementation
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...Italian mummers were to perform it, Producer Reinhardt drilled his cast from a German script. For a stage, instead of the Piazza San Marco, where most Venetian festivals are held, he chose an obscure and humble piazza called Campo San Trovaso, bounded by a church, two 16th Century tenement houses and a small canal. Shylock's miserly squawkings came from a bridge still decorated by the arms of the Venetian Republic. Gratiano cruised about the canal in a medieval gondola. A garden wall of one of the tenements was transformed into the avenue to Portia's house...
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. The fire, starting on the third floor, shot up the stair well, down the hallways and through the flimsy walls and doors as if they were paper. By the time the fire department arrived the whole interior was roaring like a blast furnace. Seven tenants were cooked alive. Week before in New York City six persons were incinerated in tenements. Week before that ten were burned...
...Housing Authority has the power of eminent domain but in Manhattan courts fat awards in condemnation proceedings are the rule. Vast areas of the slums are held by small real estate speculators, many of them onetime slumdwellers who have made a little money. Langdon W. Post, able young tenement house commissioner and chairman of the Housing Authority, last week lashed this capitalization of misery thus: "In the last 25 years there has been more speculation in New York City real estate than there has been in any other nation. We must send this speculation to the Stock Exchange...
...Stuyvesants. Folsams and Columbia University chimed in with offers to cooperate. But for true low-cost housing even the assessed valuation is too high. Everybody wants slum-clearance including the landlords and the mortgage holders. But the landlords and the mortgage holders want their money first. A recent Manhattan Tenement House Commissioner, a realistic Tammany jobholder, estimated that thorough slum-clearance in New York would take 250 years...
...economic aspects of this housing plan, there are one or two things which may have slipped even the nimble brains of the Party, First, will not the purchase of tenement land reduce the taxable area of the municipal government, causing it either to sustain a further loss on the investment or to plaster another burden on the rich and near rich which may impede the further burgeoning of the little buds of recovery which seem to be cropping up in the British Isles? Second, will not the costs of purchase, destruction, and reconstruction force a high rental, higher than slum...