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The place had opened a year and half before on the ground floor of a notorious Bowery flophouse called, with perfect New York irony, the Palace Hotel.—Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025 And then there are all of Gov. Healey’s foreign freeloader flophouses.—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 June 2025 Authorities belatedly removed the girl from the flophouse, which did not go over well with Ronald Joseph.—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 2 Apr. 2025 One regular, Milt, lived in the Whitehouse Hotel, a flophouse around the corner.—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flophouse
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