loft building

noun

1. a building of several floors with large areas of unobstructed space, originally rented out for light industrial purposes and now frequently converted to residential occupancy.

Example Sentences

He and his wife, Maria Larsson, have regrouped in New York, in a five-story loft building on Mercer Street in SoHo that Eversley bought for $350,000 in 1980.

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Since 2013, Mattioli has exhibited Italian art of the Interwar and Postwar period in the SoHo loft building on Broome Street where she also lives.

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Last June, 1199 S.E.I.U. moved to a loft building at 498 Seventh Avenue, just a few blocks away.

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“The whole neighborhood shook,” said Lily Hansen, who was sitting on her couch in her second-floor apartment in a loft building a few blocks away.

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Theo and Audrey live in Bushwick — “the Edison labs of emerging style” — in a loft building where the stairs have been made impassable by “a large, heavily stained couch wedged between the second- and third-floor landings.”

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