Comments on: Overheated NYC Apartments Can be Prevented! http://blog.epa.gov/greeningtheapple/2012/06/overheated-nyc-apartments-can-be-prevented/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=overheated-nyc-apartments-can-be-prevented Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 May 2013 16:31:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Nustita http://blog.epa.gov/greeningtheapple/2012/06/overheated-nyc-apartments-can-be-prevented/#comment-2238 Nustita Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:22:48 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/greeningtheapple/?p=10244#comment-2238 Having grown up in a New England house where the thermostat was never set above 65, I am boggled by the waste I see in my Queens neighborhood every winter. It can be 15 degrees outside, but walking down the street you’ll see many apartments with their windows flung wide open, the occupants desperate for some fresh air in their overheated apartments. This is also the case in my building, and for some reason I can’t convince the super or the landlord that installing a TRV on our radiator is a no-brainer investment. What I get is total indifference– to the comfort of tenants, to the larger environment, and to basic economics.

Honestly I think the only way to improve this is to pass legislation in city council. The landlords would kick and scream, sure, but it would be for their own good and for the good of their tenants.

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