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That’s in part because Gelb, who has asthma, is loath to leave his East Village railroad flat or otherwise take risks with the coronavirus.

In New York, it’s the studio apartment — and its grittier cousin, the tenement railroad flat — that has sheltered generations of strivers and makers.

Shortly after Howe was born, in 1940, her family moved from Buffalo to a railroad flat near Harvard Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In a good week, it’s a living — enough to pay the rent on his railroad flat in Harlem and put food on the table.

If you want blinds, he suggested using a bamboo one from Pearl River Mart, which he hung in his first apartment, a small railroad flat in the East Village.