The photographs vividly capture domestic life and vanished neighborhoods : wood-frame houses in South Jamaica , Queens , that became the site of South Jamaica Houses ; a crowded tenement in Bedford-Stuyvesant , Brooklyn , that was succeeded by Marcy Houses ; a kitchen in a Lower East Side building that was razed for Lillian Wald Houses ; and the giant natural gas tanks on East 11th Street that were replaced by Jacob Riis Houses .