8. Long Island City Tenement Buildings

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Aside from the usual industrial spaces, Long Island City was sprinkled with small tenements and historical wood frame houses. These buildings are becoming the exception now, as developers are offering an ever increasing amount of money to their owners in order to tear them down and replace them with taller structures—each of the three buildings photographed above have been taken down. These older buildings, with their mortgages long paid off, had significantly lower rents than the new developments.