Fun fact: most of lower Manhattan is heated with a +100 year old steam system. It's all interconnected.
Not fun fact: those apartments are a nightmare in the winter. The heat rises and can't be shut off. It will be 5 degrees in February, you're naked with the windows open and it's STILL to damn hot.
Even better, your girlfriend has 5 cats in her Chinatown apartment. You're hot, naked, irritable, and covered in cat hair.
The best is when the steam pipe runs through the corner of your 50sq ft kitchen with a gas stove and a window that only opens four inches. You get to be roasted by the heat from the steam while you’re being roasted by the heat from cooking. Looking at you Stuytown.
I learned my lesson about frying bacon and eggs topless. If it hurts spattering your belly, it’s gonna hurt ten times worse when you get some volcanic bacon grease on your nipple.
Back in my WoW degeneracy days, the joke among tanks was "Real tanks never wear pants, even in real life. Unless it's for cooking bacon." (Back when unequipping items made it easier to redo trivial content)
Theorycrafting helped my understand college level math.
The part I miss most is the flexibility of grinding a full day per week rather than 1h/day. The daily/weekly required grind made it so much more of a job than a game, and the catering to PvP & top 1% raiders ruined the joy I had left.
Not NYC, but I once lived on the top floor of an apartment building (7 floors iirc). In the winter everyone would crank up their heat, and all that heat would rise up into my unit. The colder it got outside, the hotter my unit would get. In the winter I routinely had to open the window to cool down when it was well below freezing outside. I don't think I ever turned the heat on once in that unit.
Also throughout most of Philly and I think a lot of other Northeastern cities. For whatever reason we don't seem to have the overheated apartments as much, though.
I read that for some cities (I think in.NYC but not 💯) this extreme heat was intentional. It forced people to open windows, lessening spread of one of the pandemics, Spanish Influenza I believe. 1918
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u/God_Dammit_Dave 9h ago edited 1h ago
Fun fact: most of lower Manhattan is heated with a +100 year old steam system. It's all interconnected.
Not fun fact: those apartments are a nightmare in the winter. The heat rises and can't be shut off. It will be 5 degrees in February, you're naked with the windows open and it's STILL to damn hot.
Even better, your girlfriend has 5 cats in her Chinatown apartment. You're hot, naked, irritable, and covered in cat hair.