What is "walk-up"

Usage examples of "walk-up".

The streets were running the wrong way, and traffic and the junk along the curbs were thicker than usual but not bad enough to make Rasche use the lights or siren, so by the time they arrived on the scene, four other cars were already there, uniforms cordoning off the area around an abandoned five-story walk-up tenement.

Nothing went on here, though, in this shacky walk-up: what went on went on in interchangeable intercontinental hotel rooms, in the private suites of corrupt clubs and thriving-speakeasies, in glazed Arab flats.

Lo Manto stood in the entryway of a nineteenth-century three-story walk-up, its foyer steps done in marble, its wooden door polished enough to see a reflection, and he watched the scene play out one he had witnessed many times in the Bronx neighborhood where he was raised.

Tom Potenza stood waiting for Nerese on the stoop of his building, a five-story walk-up wedged between the Dodi-Diana Smoke Shop and the Ship of Zion daycare center on Tonawanda Avenue.

And even as he did so he could hear the slow, methodical tramp of feet clumping up the five-storey walk-up.

The Henrys dined before the reception at the apartment of Commander Grohke, a small dark walk-up flat on the fourth floor of an old house with bay windows.

I went first to shady, tree-lined Sweetzer Avenue in West Hollywood, and got the results I expected: no one at the 618 address, a Spanish-style walk-up apartment building, recalled the redheaded nurse or her then-infant son.

He knew intellectually that Howe was a multimillionaire, but as a man who had never made more than fifteen thousand a year the confrontation with the impressive grounds and magnificent house gave him an emotional jolt, an instinctive comparison of his walk-up apartment, a put-down.

When I visited them in their Houston Street walk-up apartment in New York that summer, we drank Medaglia D'Oro coffee thick as fur which they brewed on their tiny stove in a weirdly shaped coffee pot Nelson had bought in Italy.

Four- and five-story walk-up apartment houses, with their backs to the tracks, at least ten families to a building, more usually twenty or more, and the buildings crushed together almost wall to wall.

McSwiney had a small and cluttered walk-up apartment in one of the less-restored old houses that had been divided and subdivided almost as many times as the collective rent of the various tenants had been withheld, or paid late.

Small stucco houses and walk-up apartment buildings ran to the north.

A little beyond her, dim yellow light came from the stairway of a walk-up apartment house.

The roof across the street was about level with the window of this floor—they were five-story walk-ups across the street.

Home was room in a grimy tenement she shared with two other working girls, a third floor walk-up with a bathroom down the hall.