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The buildings were pinched in the middle so that they had a dumbbell shape, thus the term dumbbell tenement. And they had these tiny light slots or light shafts in the middle that were so narrow that you could actually reach out and shake your neighbor's hand.
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dumbbell tenement A multiple-dwelling substandard apartment building; commonly three to five stories high, containing relatively long narrow ... Architecture: dumbbell tenement...
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cheap housing units created when cities became packed with people during the industrial revolution. They were called dumbbell tenements because the design of the building, which looked like a dumbbell, had many housing units sharing a corri...
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"Dumbbell" tenement construction ballooned after an 1879 housing law set new minimum standards for lighting and ventilation. Thousands had been constructed by 1901.
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There are fewer dumbbell tenements on the Lower East Side than in some other parts of the city because so many tenements like 97 Orchard Street had already been built in the neighborhood by 1879. The Tenement House Act of 1901 outlawed dumbbell tenements.
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Arnold Eagle New York Tenement Life In The 30's and 40's ... The result was the "dumbbell" tenements, so named because the indentations of the air shaft created a building footprint that resembles the shape of a dumbbell weight.
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Dumbbell tenements, an improvement from their original designs, had air shafts and windows. Professional fire fighters were hired and sprinklers were made mandatory. Buildings began to be built out of stone, brick and concrete.
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A decade later, the Tenement House Act of 1879 inaugurated the reign of the dumbbell tenement, so called for its distinctive shape when seen from above. The exterior walls of such buildings are indented between the front and back apartments, creating air shafts between adjacent buildings.
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The "rookery," a term that predates "tenement" and held different meaning, was as treacherous as the cellar. ... Less than ten years later, the West Side was completely remade in a massive transition, as rowhouses and squatter shacks were rapidly replaced by dumbbell tenements and upper class homes.8...
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