TENEMENT



I checked a New York Public Library microfilm reel of tenement pamphlets.

Most interesting was THE TENEMENT HOUSES OF NEW YORK CITY/ A

CONTRIBUTION TO

THE STUDY BY THE TENEMENT HOUSE BUILDING CO (1891). Page 3 opens with,

"The

first tenement-house in America was built in 1838 in Cherry Street, and only a

stone's throw from the site of the model houses of the Tenement-House Building

Company."

1838? How come OED has 1858? How come both the Lower East Side Tenement

Museum and the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW YORK CITY don't record this?

Don't look too hard for it on Cherry Street. I think it's now the

Brooklyn Bridge.



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