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A row of brick and brownstone houses on South Oxford Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn: photograph by Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:172-208_South_Oxford_Street.jpg
A tan brick New York apartment building with fire escapes on a street corner in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn: photograph by Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bed-Stuy_20191130_-_03_-_Hart_@_Throop.jpg
Workers in hard hats unrolling a blue tarp across a damaged house roof: photograph by Patrick Bray, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:181019-A-QE256-097_(44873047495).jpg
Brick apartment buildings with fire escapes on East 189th Street in the Bronx: photograph by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bronx_-_2480-2482_E_189th_Street.jpg
A large prewar brick apartment building with fire escapes on Sherman Avenue in the Bronx: photograph by Jeff Reuben, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:975_Sherman_Avenue.JPG
Red brick apartment buildings with fire escapes on Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn: photograph by Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bed-Stuy_20191130_-_11_-_Marcus_Garvey_btwn_Kosciuszko_%26_Lafayette.jpg
A row of attached Brooklyn row houses with stoops on St. Felix Street, Fort Greene: photograph by Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:101-127_St._Felix_Street.jpg
A Bedford-Stuyvesant corner building in Brooklyn with shops on the ground floor and apartments above: photograph by Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bed-Stuy_20191130_-_15_-_Marcus_Garvey_btwn_Madison_%26_Putnam.jpg
A tall red brick apartment building on a sunny Bronx street corner: photograph by Jim.henderson, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apartment_house_Lafayette_%26_HPA_NE_jeh.jpg
A red brick Manhattan apartment building with a black iron fire escape zigzagging down its front: photograph by Kidfly182, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chelsea_Manhattan_August_2022_040.jpg
Brick walk-up buildings in Manhattan’s East Village with black iron fire escapes across their fronts: photograph by Seaotterpup, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:13_05_NYC_Physical_Graffitti_1.jpg
Tan brick apartment buildings on a tree-lined corner in Jackson Heights, Queens: photograph by Deans Charbal, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:34-56_74th_Street,_at_35th_Street,_Jackson_Heights,_Queens,_New_York.jpg
A brick apartment building on 74th Street in Jackson Heights, Queens: photograph by Deans Charbal, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:35-46_74th_Street_(east_facade),_between_35th_and_37th_Ave,_Jackson_Heights,_Queens,_New_York.jpg
Attached brick two-family houses on a corner in Fresh Meadows, Queens: photograph by Tdorante10, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:198th_St_73rd_Av_td_(2018-10-30)_02.jpg
A brick apartment building with fire escapes and rows of windows on Clifton Place in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn: photograph by Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bed-Stuy_20191130_-_29_-_Clifton_btwn_Nostrand_%26_Marcy.jpg
A large shingled house with a wraparound porch on Meisner Avenue, Staten Island: photograph by Jim.henderson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:205_Meisner_Av_porch_house_jeh.jpg
A house with a blue tarp pulled over its damaged roof, a fallen tree in the yard: photograph by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valdosta,_Hurricane_Idalia,_tree_down_on_house.jpg
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