Lengthy before the actor Anthony Rapp located achievement on Broadway in “Rent,” he was dwelling significantly the very same way as the battling East Village artists the hit musical portrayed. The imagined of owning a spot in Manhattan at the time appeared unrealistic. But in the summer time of 1998 — two and a 50 percent years immediately after he was solid as the first guide in “Rent” — he experienced scraped with each other more than enough income for a down payment on a next-floor studio loft at 1 Bond Street in NoHo, a historic cast-iron condominium building in close proximity to Lafayette Street. The sale price was $375,000.…