assessment question

The narrator comments that artists flocked to Greenwich Village looking for cheap apartments with north-facing windows, eighteenth-century gables, and Dutch attics. It is in one of these studios, at the top of a three-story brick building, that Sue and Johnsy (a nickname for Joanna), the story’s protagonists, live. Having come to New York from Maine and California, the two women met at a restaurant on Eighth Street, and bonded over shared tastes in art, food, and fashion.