SoHo’s founding artist homes were illegal residential occupancies

Evidence

Maciunas cared little that his planned renovations (not to mention occupancies) were in violation of SoHo’s nonresidential status or that making a public offering without first filing a full-disclosure prospectus with the New York State Attorney General was illegal. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1082

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s core thesis that avant-gardes are produced by conditions (illegality, cheap space) — links to the broader claim she’s testing about why culture stagnates now.