The scent of linseed oil and turpentine hung in the air, and 4-year-old Chloe Fonda was mesmerized. It was 1939, and she was a tiny thing who watched her retired midwife grandmother, Chloe Wassum, ...

When painter Holly J. Salerno moved into this 900-square-foot loft in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood three years ago, the rental loft — located in a former factory built in 1931 — was a “completely ...