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Show City Without Private Houses. In one respect a point not so flattering flat-tering to metropolitan complacency New York is unique among great cities: Manhattan is a city without private houses. In the last fifteen years few private dwellings hve been built, except those of millionaires. In that same period thousands of the old brown-stone fronts of a previous generation gen-eration have been dismantled to make way for tenements and apartments. Forty years the city has been undergoing under-going a process of "tenementization." New York is a city almost exclusively of tenements and apartments that is Its most striking architectural and social characteristic. |