The building is on the borderline of Long Island City and Sunnyside, Queens. It is mostly occupied by textiles shops, each floor holding 2 shops. Our unit was leased by a tableware designer as the full 1/2 floor, subsequently divided up. Softbox was previously rented by a gift ware company for the past 6 years. There are several other smaller units leased out by artists with varying degrees of "live" in "live/work." The complex does not feel like the Soho warehouses of the 1960s which allowed a "marginal" existence, according to my sculpture prof Robert Morris. Rather, it has a feeling of entrepreneurial creative enterprise; potentially a necessary condition at this point to sustain space in New York.