Known for its lyric out of Simon and
Garfunkel's: The sounds of silence, "tenement halls" are rooms or sets of separate residences in
housing complexes and apartments. Specifically
rundown, overcrowded and low income apartments.
"And the signs
said
The
words of the prophets are written on the
subway walls
And tenement halls
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence"
OR
"I live down in the tenement halls on 136th, its a real sh*thole"