The Triple Decker
How Immigrants to New England Achieved the American Dream
3 min readJun 11, 2022
I live in Providence, Rhode Island, a city that has long welcomed immigrants. Sitting out on my front porch on a summer’s evening, I can hear conversations in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Farsi. Many of my neighbors are graduate students or residents at the nearby hospitals, renting apartments in the triple-deckers that…