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Old Law Tenements are tenements built in New York City after the Tenement House Act of 1879 and before the so-called "New Law" of 1901. The 1879 law required that every inhabitable room have a window...
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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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; 1865: Sanitary condition of the City; 1867: First Tenement House Act; 1870: NYC Creates the Dept. of Public Works; 1879: Tenement House Competition; 1888: The Great Blizzard ... "Dumbbell" tenement construction ballooned after an 1879 housing law set new minimum standards for lighting and ventilation.
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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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And the first major tenement house law was passed in 1879 and led to what are referred to as old-law tenements or dumbbell tenements. These were tenements that were built on a 25-foot-wide lot, still.
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97 was not affected by the next round of tenement laws enacted in 1879. Only tenements built after that date had to meet its requirements: ... 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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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 ... Thousands of dumbbell tenements were erected in Little Italy and the Lower East Side,
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Dumbbell tenement Apartment buildings built to minimal codes and designed to cram the largest number of people into the smallest amount of space. The dumbbell indentation in the middle of the building, although unsightly, conformed to the ... Tenement Reform Law of 1879 required all rooms to have access to light and air.
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