Show city without private houses in one respect a point not so BO flattering to metropolitan complacency new york Is unique among great cities manhattan Is a city without private houses housos in the last fifteen years few private dwellings gw ellings have been built except those of in that same barno period thousands of 0 the old brown itono stono fronts of a previous generation have been dismantled to make way for tenements and apartments forty years the city has haf been undergoing a process of new york Is a city almost exclusively of tenements tene menta and apartments apart menta that Is its ita most striking architectural and social characteristic |