The Setauket development has five floor plans; a 1,150-square-foot one-bedroom with a loft rents for $1,750, a 1,195-square-foot 1,195-square-foot 1,195-square-footsquare-footwo-bedroomroom for $2,000.
In recent weeks, artists whose loft rents have begun to climb have started calling Mr. Brown's aggressive downtown development plans the "Jerryfication of Oakland," a complaint he dismisses as uninformed.
Last December, Mr. Miller, who had spent more than a decade in Brooklyn lofts, rented a different kind of apartment — a conventional 600-square-foot one-bedroom in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with distinct separations between the living room, bedroom and bathroom.
Memories of my time there helped me persuade my partner, Ann, that we should delay the loft conversion, rent out the house and move to Paris.
In May, they had their first child, a girl, and decided to make the 3,000-square-foot 3,000-square-foot 3,000-square-footà-terre and raise her in a more traditionaloftme.
Each of the 2,300-square-foot 2,300-square-foot 2,300-square-foot700 per month, Mr. Zinkewitsch said.
The Freunds plan to sell one of their extra spots at the Fifth Street Lofts and rent out the other.
The Lebanese partners Compagnie Immobiliere Libanaise wanted to renovate the building and set up luxury lofts for rent or sale.
They hunted for a new condominium in nearby Battery Park City, but prices were high, so they sold their loft and rented a three-bedroom down the hall.
These contain full-floor two-bedroom lofts that rent for about $3,500 a month, said Joey Goldman, a partner of Goldman Properties, which owns five of the buildings.
