9 Pell Street

Chinatown | built 1920

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1. 1936

   A four-story rear tenement behind 9 Pell Street outlasts the WPA clearances

   Rear tenements packed a second building onto a narrow lot, with only about 10 feet of ground between it and the front tenement, and their lower floors were almost entirely dark and poorly ventilated. From 1936 into the early 1940s the WPA's slum clearance programs dismantled many of these rear buildings. The rear building at 9 Pell Street is one of at least 61 that still stand in the historic district, though it cannot be seen from the street.

   Source: National Register nomination

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