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The tenement at 81 Bowery is about the cheapest place to stay in Manhattan. For $100 to $200 a month, you get a bed and a key, but not much else. Some 35 Chinese immigrants live in a fourth-floor loft that has been divided into blocks of cubicles barely wider than a mattress. Here, Chu Ben Jin, who sleeps in cubicle number four, has been a tenant for more than 12 years.