The official list of things you must not photograph is short but the unofficial list is long and ranges from old, broken-down buildings to old, broken-down women sweeping the streets.

We also had a thing for broken-down buildings.

Inept and corrupt investors, some of them nonprofit organizations, bilked a loan program aimed at turning broken-down buildings into affordable housing, leaving taxpayers with a $250 million cleanup bill.

They heard something at the edge of the broken-down building, and both dropped flat on the floor.

However, all of these developments also led to the economic downfall of many of Connecticut's cities, many of which remain dotted with abandoned mills and other broken-down buildings.

Not you guys, who live in a broken-down building on the edge of a dead city, slowly turning into freaks when you could be beautiful.

Amid the rubble of a decayed, broken-down building, they give birth to dying puppies and kittens, and it is in these same buildings that they die themselves.

For those who live and work in rat-filled lofts and broken-down buildings and face intractable urban problems, efforts to recycle sometimes seem more a hope than a possibility.

Until 1998, when they moved into Metrotech (the new headquarters in Brooklyn), the fire department made do in a broken-down commercial building on Livingston Street.

Then, around a bend, a broken-down building of brick and stone emerges.