East 6th Street, between Second and Third 

 Avenues — Marble cutting, fur picking and 

 sorting in rear of tenements. 



Suffolk Street, near Houston Street — Granite cutting 

 works occupy the whole of this tenement yard. 



Fig. 108— REAR YARDS OF TENEMENTS USED FOR INDUSTRIES. 



Tenement yards are a development of the garden space which was a valuable 

 adjunct of the old private residence. Its importance as a playground free from the 

 dangers of the street is emphasized by its very inadequacy for the hundreds who live 

 in the tenement. Its usurpation then by business or industry is doubly reprehensible 

 and the location of dangerous and noisy trades in these breathing spaces should be 

 prohibited. 



