This was a residential area, five-story apartments lining both sides of the street, each with its own distinct facade.

Workers concentrated on a single site, one of the prefabricated five-story apartment blocks that crumbled immediately in the earthquake.

The next night rioting boiled up again, and spread out from the bus station into streets and the five-story apartment blocks nearby.

The buildings nearby were four- and five-story apartments, probably tenements for the very poor.

Because it still has large green areas, along with a high population density, the houses are not very large; there are generally four or five-story apartments.

Isidore Bloom, a 7-year old boy, fell from the roof of his five-story apartment in New York but survived by falling on clotheslines.

It was believed that the missiles that destroyed the helicopter were fired from one of the many battle-damaged five-story apartment blocks in the outskirts of Grozny.

Rescuers had not yet reached some damaged buildings, including two five-story apartments.

In Soviet times the population jumped to 8,000, with many five-story Soviet-style apartments appearing in the 1960s.

Mr. Itkoff's five-story walk-up apartment on the Lower East Side has all the accouterments of a lad in good standing.