They crowded into tenement buildings, and found a living in factories or street peddlers.

他们挤在廉价的出租屋里过夜，在工厂劳动或在街头贩卖谋生。

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To me they were heavy sacks of obligation during holidays and weekends, when my mother and I 29 wended our way through 30 tenement buildings to visit fellow immigrants from China.

而对我来说，它们是我和母亲在节假日时的一袋袋沉重负担——我和母亲会走街串巷，穿过出租屋去拜访那些大陆移民同乡。

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The refurbished venue, which combines eastern and western architectural elements including an Art Deco facade and a Chinese-style roof, lies amid low-rise tenement buildings, vibrant markets and local shops.

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To prepare for trials, she followed police into tenement shooting galleries, scaled rickety staircases in dilapidated buildings and fought off the stench of squalor to talk to reluctant witnesses.

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The two buildings, which are part of a massive 15-tenement complex on the Upper East Side, are at the center of a dispute that has raged for more than two decades.

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