Steve Silver stands inside his 5,000-square-foot loft in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Silver, a painter, moved into the loft in 1979.

Painter Kimiko Fujimura moved from Tokyo to New York over 50 years ago. In the first SoHo loft she occupied in the city, a fire broke out destroying more than a hundred of her paintings, Charow said.

According to the New York Times, the late actor paid $25,000 a month for the loft rental after moving to SoHo from Brooklyn following his split with his Brokeback Mountain costar, Michelle Williams.

In this excerpt from Joshua Charow’s Loft Law, The Last of New York City’s Original Artist Lofts, we see inside the home of three Brooklyn artists who are protected by the loft law — and who ...

New York’s 1982 Loft Law was enacted to protect the tenants exactly like this. But even among Loft Law tenants, Mason’s story is unique.

Courtney Love's former New York apartment, which she lived in for five years from 2001 to 2006, is now on the market for nearly $9.5 million.

After an impulsive move from California, a New York newcomer tested her $1.8 million budget in Manhattan’s loft-filled neighborhoods, willing to make improvements if the location was right.

With living in a loft comes a certain kind of New York bragging rights one can’t claim, say, while living in an Upper West Side co-op or a Park Slope townhouse. “It’s almost like people are ...

In 1982, the New York State Legislature passed Article 7-C of the Multiple Dwelling Law, also known as the Loft Law, creating a new class of buildings in response to artists who had converted ...

It's a New York-style loft in the heart of Minneapolis with soaring ceilings, exposed brick, hardwood floors," he said. "And it's close to all these shops and the most popular restaurants in town." ...