[Carmen]

Its getting cold. Where's my heat?! Do you have any?
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[Whatchuwant]

I've had heat for the past two weeks. It used to take longer, but a few years ago my super had a baby and POOF! Heat nice and early...
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[Flexichick]

Oh, yeah. I start this watch somewhere around September 26th (I love me my heat).

It's on....it needs to be on by law. After October 1st, if the outside temp falls below 55 during the hours of 6am-10pm, they have to heat your apartment to 68 degrees minimum....there are guidelines for 10pm-6am as well (look at nyc.gov or call 311). Some small buildings will try to tell you that they are not subjected to these laws, but that's not true.

I'm nice and toasty now. My LL had to call her boiler person, so we were a few days late, but she had good intentions and got it done quickly, unlike Asshat (my former LL) who would argue with me every step of the way and used to try to convince me the start date was Oct. 15th. When I proved him wrong, it was "I don't need to follow those laws". It only got worse from there.

Signed,
Warm and cozy Flexi
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[Carmen]

We actually had it for half of one day this weekend (first time this year) and now its gone. Space heaterssss
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[Teckla]

Our supers have two young kids - is that why it's been so blazing hot? Seriously, we've had to open windows!

[scarlett]

We control our own heat and I am resisting turning it on just like I resisted putting in the A/Cs in June. Our apartment is usually around 68 and more when we cook, so what is the point. Put on a sweater, make some tea or hot toddies and cozy up with a blanket! Maybe because most of you don't have to pay for it, you want it?

[sweet tea]

...or maybe your apartment has better insulation than some. or maybe it's not so much not having it, as not knowing when you will.

our heat is on, but i think we'd be okay without it, because we live in a big, old, solid building.
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[arlette]

Heat is on...too much. Like a sauna.Still have my fan going because of it.

[Flexichick]

It doesn't matter if I had to pay for it (I pay a decent amount of rent, and heat is included) or not. I get cold easily and want my heat!
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[scarlett]

Yes, good points Sweet Tea. I guess I prefer cool air. Love my window open.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

I control my own heat but I luckily live above a restuarant so I hardly ever have to turn it on until the middle of November or so. Summer months - the A/C is cranking...because I live above a restuarant.
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[sweet tea]

[halfpint]

No heat in my apartment yet though yesterday it was chillier in here than outdoors.

[scarlett]

Totally Sweet Tea!!!!!!! Two duvets and a nippy nose!!!!!! The only way I can force myself out of bed in the morning is by throwing back the covers into the cool air.

Ok, so are there any restaurants with working fireplaces in our nabe?

[brooklynpotter]

i work in a commercial building that has totally different laws. laws, its seems, that are never enforced.

it's 60 in my studio right now and i'm working with very cold wet clay and plaster. and people wonder why i'm grumpy.

(yes, i've called 311. and my landlord who is the subleasee. the goniffs won't turn it on. and there is none on the weekends. nada.)
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[EasilyFound]

So far have not turned on the heat for my home. Will probably do it in a few days. Been a little chilly in the a.m. and evening, after the sun goes down.

[LongTimeSloper]

Being a co op , we control our own heat, which is wonderful! And, it is temperature controlled to automatically come on at certain temps set on the thermostat. And, yes, we have had plenty of heat the last couple of weeks.

[BrookFetish]

No heat in our building, yet. We rent.
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[LadyLibertine]

No heat yet in our (rented) place, but we live on the fourth-floor of an old brownstone with a likely equally-ancient boiler, so I never really expected it.

Got a tiny little spaceheater last night after a (legally) chilly Monday morning.
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[Livetotravel]

I've been "advocating" for action among the tenants in my building for weeks to call the landlord and make a "friendly" reminder that heat season starts on Oct 1st - with success, as the heat is on as I write this.
Here is the brief on the law in NYC…

In effect October 1 to May 31

Time of If Outside Temp. Inside Temp must
Day is less than: be more than:
6:00 am - 10:00 pm 55° 68°
10:00 pm - 6:00 am 40° 55°

If You Have Problems With Heat In Your Building:

1. Call the Weather Bureau at (212) 976-1212 to get the official outside temperature. Use a thermometer to take the temperature inside your apartment.

2. Call the Central Complaint Bureau at (212) 824-4328 to register your complaint. You should call each day you have a heating problem. They are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

3. Write and call your landlord. Send letters by certified mail, return receipt requested and keep a copy of the letter. Keep a list of each date and time you called your landlord to complain.

4. Consider organizing a tenant's association and filing an HP Action against your landlord in Housing Court. If you live in a rent regulated apartment, consider filing a complaint with the Division of Housing and Community Renewal (718) 519-5678.
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[Em26]

My heat started on Saturday at 4:50am.....then it comes back on around 7 or 7:30am....and then that's it till 4:50am. It gets so damn hot in here when they keep it running , so I'm happy it's not on all day. But that will change come November and I'll be laying on my couch sweating to death and grumpy as hell. It gets hot like a sauna in here gotdammit. The only area I can go to escape when it gets that hot is in the kitchen or bathroom.

Heat is included in our rent ,thank God , cuz that stuff is crazy expensive. My dad pays $400-$500 a month to heat our house + $200 a month for electricity for the space heaters that they use in the bedroom in the basement and the one in my Dads room. He pays all that money for heat and his room for some reason just doesn't warm up unless we set the thermostat up to 80-90 degrees. My mom gets pissed when I turn it up so high cuz it gets really hot in most of the bedrooms and the pipes let out a clank here and there.She yells at me and says that I'm going to blow up the house. The reason I was doing that was bcuz during my last visit home his space heater broke and he was taking forever to go buy a new one and so , hell yeah I was turning that shit up for him cuz he's old and I swear if you walk in his bedroom you'll feel like you were outside , that's how cold it gets in there. I don't want him to get sick , yo. He got a space heater now and that's a good thing cuz nobody else has the guts to turn that thermostat up past her normal 70 degrees setting. Not bcuz of the blowing up the house thing -it's cuz of the mom blowing up our ass thing. I'm her fav so I sweet talk her (from a distance ) into not beating me. My sweetness always works so instead she makes me turn it down and tells me that I am not allowed near that thermostat ever.
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[Nuclear Redaction]

Mine hasn't come on yet. I tend to like it a little on the cool side myself, but I actually had to put on a sweatshirt over the weekend. Ironically, when the heat is on (it's included in the rent), I have to shut off the radiators because it gets plenty warm just from the steam in the pipes. If the radiators are on, it's like an oven up in here.

This is also the time of year when the cat gets very lovey. In the summer, he wouldn't sit on my lap if I was wearing tuna underpants, but now I can't keep him away.
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[brooklynpotter]

tuna underpants. heh
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[Christina]

Mine came on yesterday and now it's boiling in here and I don't even turn the radiators on. The one in the kitchen leaks - how does this happen all of a sudden? It was perfectly fine earlier this year!

[brooklynpotter]

i'm still laughing about the underpants
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[meganlibrarian]

Yup, we've had heat for maybe a week or so. Of course, now I've come to realize that the radiator's not running in our bedroom... where our 6-month old daughter sleeps, as well. I've gotta harass the super to see about getting that radiator fixed. Bleh.
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[Flexichick]

[meganlibrarian]

Hard to tell - they're built into the wall behind a metal sheet flush with the wall. I don't even know how to get them open!
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[Aenigma]

No heat (or hot water) in my 4th-floor brownstone unit for the past three days. Calling the management company results in a pre-recorded message saying the office will be closed until Thursday. It sucks. On the bright side, though, it's done wonders for my physical fitness: nothing gets my lazy butt to the gym like the prospect of a hot shower I can't get anywhere else....

[filmlover44]

Today is the first day that we have had heat.
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[rtraindweller]

Mine came on friday night (no big deal, i prefer cooler temperatures and wearing hoodies, yes i hate summer.) and my radiator freaked me out. The loud clanging noise woke me the hell up and i didn't know what it was at first! I ran to my window and peered outside thinking someone was trying to steal my bike or something.
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[possibly_maybe]

yes, came on last week.

no problems last winter, either. in fact, we had to keep windows open nearly all winter in order to cool it down, so we may actually ask them to lower it again if that keeps up. that's hardly something to complain about, though, considering the opposite would suck lots more.

[Idlewild]

I had new EE windows installed through out...I have to tell you it makes a huge difference when you not only go thermal glass but you get a competent window installer who knows how to seal up leaks and drafts.
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[Carmen]

Ok so it was pretty cold when I woke up this morning...time to call the management company (again!)
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[brooklynpotter]

carmen, you can also call 311. and should.
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[Idlewild]

[brooklynpotter]

hep = help. or, i'm a hep-cat this early in the am.

new building or old building? that also can make a difference (new being better to get properly sealed windows. i think).
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[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

I spoke too soon. I had to turn the heat on for a bit this morning. I woke up shivering with no blankets, no sheets and a very well wrapped, toasty canine next to me. Greedy fucker.
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[Mamacita]

Heats on and the chorus of clanking has begun.
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[brooklynpotter]

mamacita, if you spend 15k on a new furnace the clanking will stop
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[Mamacita]

[brooklynpotter]

i don't disagree, and we wouldn't have needed the furnace had the old one not cracked in half
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[pastoralia]

As was the case last year I had to call my LL to turn the heat on. He says it's on a thermostat yet it only comes on at 7 am and 7 pm. And when it does it last for about thirty minutes. And, to add to my frustration, only the tops of the radiators get hot- the bottom stays cool.

It seriously pisses me off when I wake up at 3am freezing my balls off. I've called him numerous times but I keep getting this feeling that he thinks I'm lying for some reason.

About the only thing I miss from my old apartment on 18th street was the great heat.

We are on the top floor of an old brownstone- is it hard for heat to travel to the top? It seems the pipe in the first floor hallway gets hot while our radiators stay cold.

So irritating.

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