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"At the time of the 1879 Tenement House Act, which first regulated the city's low-income housing, Mayor Edward Cooper invited a group of prominent businessmen to form the Improved Dwelling Association. The Association invested $300,000 in the first model tenement and by law was limited to a five percent return on its investment. "Constructed in 1882, the tenement was laid out along the perimeter of First and Second Avenues and 71st and 72nd Streets, with an open courtyard in the center, admitting light and air. Fifty years later, Abbott documented this space as a communal laundry line: ropes with pulleys led from apartments to five-story poles imbedded in concrete. "Abbott made two exposures, with the laundry and poles forming different abstract configurations. She later recalled that winter day, the laundry frozen stiff and the children huddled together, too cold to move (McQuaid, 375). "In the 1960s, the tenement was replaced with one of the Upper East Side's many full-block, white-brick apartment buildings." (more) -- Museum of the City of New York

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Wow... very dramatic piece oh history in DC.

An 1884 Washington Post article places Defrees Alley in the square bounded by I, K, North Capitol, and First Streets, NE (see "A Deliberate Suicide", 11/8/1884, pg. 4). It has been built over.

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The Gaiety Theatre, Leith (bottom left advert) changed from a theatre to a cinema in 1913. It re-opened as a variety theatre in 1944. The Vagabond King was released as a musical film in 1930.