Marva and Myriam Babel spent much of the past few years thinking about the concept of a space, especially how to sustain one in a gentrifying borough. Now that they have a new one, a membership club in Brooklyn called Babel Loft, they have been mulling over how to fill it.
The main area, a space with living-room furnishings, two bar areas, books from Questlove and the comedian Dick Gregory lying about, as well as D.J. equipment atop white marble, could be a work space during the day and a dance spot by night. Past the D.J. booth is a smaller room intended as a quiet space, and a left turn reveals a short hallway — still under construction on a recent visit — that leads to what the sisters call the B-side, which will be another music space once the ladders and cardboard boxes are cleared away. Another left turn brings visitors back to the entrance facing the main area, as if they had gone through one rotation of a vinyl record, Marva Babel pointed out.
“Every place will be intentional, and that’s a work in progress,” Myriam Babel (pronounced “babble”) said after the tour. “That’s actually the beauty and fun of it.”
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