Author Steven Gaines on dingy downtown lofts, renting out to porn filmmakers to make ends meet, and why living in NYC is an "honor"

… the Hamptons International Film Festival But Gaines is a New Yorker at heart having been born and raised in Brooklyn … I live in East Hampton but in my heart I still live on West 11th Street in Manhattan where I spent nearly 20 years … 2 … was huge It went from Greene Street all the way to West Broadway There was no way to heat it or get rid of the rats …

By Virginia K. Smith |July 7, 2016 - 11:59AM