railroad apartment

Example Sentences

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“I was living in a railroad apartment in Queens and just was like, ‘This is it.’”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2024

My family lived in a railroad apartment on the second floor of a two-story building.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 25, 2015

Obama would “often spend the evening holed up in my office in the back of our railroad apartment; what I considered normal often left Michelle feeling lonely.”

From Slate • Oct. 5, 2012

Another tenant, Anna McCusker, 30, who paid $1,300 a month for her two-bedroom railroad apartment, said Mr. Alokasheh had told her that he needed to get higher-paying residents.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2010

The landlord called our new home a railroad apartment: each room leading to the next, like railway cars.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline