For four years, Araceli and her wife have been renting this 800-square-foot railroad-style apartment in Brooklyn. Located in a building from 1931, they pay $2475 a month in rent. Araceli says the ...

Santangelo, who travels widely collecting art and antiques, some of which end up in the gallery shop in Chinatown he opened last year, furnished the restored apartment with many of his finds.