like a tenement.” “If you go to Old Westbury, you don’t see laundry hanging on the line — get a washer and dryer!’’ she said. The ordinance passed earlier this week. It also bans ...

If there’s one work that fits the bill, it’s John Sloan’s “A Woman’s Work,” a 1912 image of a woman on a New York fire escape tending laundry hanging on a line over a tenement air shaft.

like a tenement. If you go to Old Westbury, you don’t see laundry hanging on the line – get a washer and dryer.’’ “I think the law is rather stupid,’’ said another resident ...

the answer is to hang your laundry outdoors. Before clothes dryers, there wasn’t any alternative. The city landscape was filled with lines of clothes stretched out of tenement windows.