Don’t tell us you agree with him, they say, and it feels like a dare. So Jess tells them, actually, it’s something in between. She tells them that rent control is a nice idea, but not if it isn’t means-tested. She tells them, Otherwise, you just end up with a bunch of random old man sculptors paying two hundred dollars a month to live in ten-thousand-square-foot lofts. She tells them, You know what, actually, it’s kind of fucked up. It’s not fucked up, they tell her. Artists are the lifeblood of New York City! They explain that the city is sliding toward inexorable decline, devolving into a
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