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Tenement Chic on THE UPPER EAST SIDE: An Ornamental Architecture Walking Tour
Private Group Tour Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy 3/15/18 Private Group Tour Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy 3/15/18

Tenement Chic on THE UPPER EAST SIDE: An Ornamental Architecture Walking Tour

The Architecture of the Upper East Side evokes mini mansions and extravagant townhouses along the "Fifth Avenue Gold Coast." but it is the richly orneamented side street tenements that housed the working and middle class residents of the neighborhood. 

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