Crowded tenements from "summary" of How The Other Half Lives by Jacob August Riis
The tenements are crowded to suffocation. The halls are packed with human beings. The rooms swarm with them. They crowd the stairs, the stoops, the pavements. They overflow into the street, filling the gutters. They are everywhere, in the way of everybody and of everything. They make the sidewalks impassable for the rest of us, who have rights in the streets as well as they. They are a constant hindrance, a never-ending annoyance. The tenements teem with life. They are alive with the stir and bustle of human existence. They are alive with the sound of voices, the patter of little feet, the hum of many voices. They are alive with the laughter of children, the groans of the sick, the sobs of the sorrowful. They are alive with the clatter of dishes, the clang of bells, the rattling of shutters. They are alive with the cries of street vendors, the calls of newsboys, the shouts of the careless and the gay. The tenements are alive with the smell of cooking. They reek with the fumes of boiled cabbage, fried fish, stewed meats. They are heavy with the od...
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