"district" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Jake Riis and I spent one Sunday from morning till night in the tenement districts, seeing for ourselves what had happened.
- Whoever, whatever was behind all this, "he" had moved his area of operation from the waterfront side of the city to the tenement district farthest inland.
- From here, he made frequent trips into New York City, writing and reporting particularly on its impoverished tenement districts.
- He mainly focused on tenement districts and said that the cost was one cent per child per hour of play.
- But in the late 19th century the tenement districts became hugely overpopulated by immigrants swarming on the stoops.
- Each year, tens of thousands of immigrants moved into the oldest tenement districts, resulting in intolerable living conditions.
- In the early 1900s, the Volunteers moved into tenement districts in New York and other large cities to care for people in poverty.
- Others were erected in congested tenement districts, with later ones built farther uptown.
- He's going to have a book published soon, about the tenement districts.
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