loft

She pays around $650 in rent for a spacious studio loft in a city that is both walkable yet big enough to have international art exhibitions, and where convenience stores are open all night.

Building work still to be completed includes raising the floor and converting an area of the loft into a bolthole, in case it floods again.

They hosted legendary parties: people spoke of candle-lit soirees in giant Manhattan loft spaces, where awkward computer coders mixed with hipster models and figures from the “Dark Enlightenment” – people like the blogger Curtis Yarvin, who advocates a totalitarian future in which the world is ruled by corporate “monarchs”.

The next day, I stopped by the “Praxis Embassy” – a giant loft space on Broadway.

Jacobs broke through with his third feature, 2008’s “Momma’s Man,” which featured his actual parents, artist Flo Jacobs and avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, in their Tribeca loft and there is something full-circle in seeing him return to a story so tied to family, aging and New York housing.