Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1894 — A Big Percentage of Rent. [ARTICLE]

A Big Percentage of Rent.

There is a building in New York city, just erected, which rents annually for more than it cost, and it is, perhaps, the smallest business house in that city. It is No. 851-2 East Houston street, and measures five feet front, fifteen feet deep, and nine feet in height. It is occupied by a confectioner, who moved in the other day. The lot is a part of the Astor estate, and was formerly an alleyway, unoccupied, except as a dumping place for rubbish. The building coat |l5O and rents for|2oo a year.— [New Orleans Picayune