railroad apartment

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

In his lustrous, emotionally textured play, which opened on Tuesday at Soho Rep, three gay Black men are stuck in a railroad apartment.

“I built it with empathy for my 24-year-old self, living in a railroad apartment with a low budget,” she said.

After his mother died, Xavier wanted to stay in the family’s two-bedroom railroad apartment, the only place that held memories of both his parents.

There was a stint living with strangers in a railroad apartment — “a mattress on the floor situation” in Bushwick — and an assault at gunpoint.