Oh my God, yes—that arrangement is so common in NYC, especially in older buildings (tenements, big apartment buildings, brownstones, you name it). I remember apartments where it seemed like the heat was on constantly from October through May.
I stayed with friends in an awful tenement building on the East 60s once where it was too hot to sleep in the dead of winter. There was this forced-heat radiator belching hot air on me all night. So awful. Leaving that kind of heating situation behind has to be one of the best things about my move here.
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Date: 2009-01-11 01:31 am (UTC)I stayed with friends in an awful tenement building on the East 60s once where it was too hot to sleep in the dead of winter. There was this forced-heat radiator belching hot air on me all night. So awful. Leaving that kind of heating situation behind has to be one of the best things about my move here.