The underground cinema relocated to informal loft screenings after losing its theater

Evidence

Undeterred by the loss of their showcase, inspired filmmakers pressed ahead. Weekends, there were informal screenings at Ken Jacobs’s Ferry Street loft, downtown between the Fulton Fish Market and the Brooklyn Bridge. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 434

Categorization

• XREF: Cheap loft space as infrastructure — precisely the material condition (physical proximity, cheap rent) the reader wants to document for the ‘why here/why now’ thesis. Fulton Fish Market / Brooklyn Bridge location = downtown frontier.