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In early 1900s cities like New York, millions of working families crowded into tenement buildings—cheaply built, densely packed apartment houses. These narrow courtyards captured how people actually lived: in small rooms, sharing bathrooms, cooking on stovetops, and raising children in tight quarters.
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You step into the courtyard on a warm afternoon. Laundry snaps on lines strung between buildings. A woman leans from a fourth-floor window calling down to children playing in the narrow brick space below. The smell of cooking—garlic, onions, bread—drifts from a dozen open windows at once.
Reflect
What would it feel like to raise your family in a few rooms with neighbors so close you could hear everything?