too effing hot

it all depends.. i remember july last summer being pretty awful, too.

so seriously -- the window/wall unit question... can anyone help? will i set my house on fire or something if i get the window unit and put it in the wall space? there are bars on my windows so i can't just put one in the window.

aren't there laws? Your landlord should be able to replace the bars with the kind that fit an AC.

I'm sure there's some good reason why people don't just put AC units in the middle of apartments. They need to vent.

Korean Fan Death?

well we have one of those holes under the window specifically for an air conditioner so i doubt she'd be willing to alter the bars... this is the kind of landlady who recently got taken to a courttv show over a security deposit!

i am just thinking, there's no way that everyone with one of those holes under their windows is spending $$$$$$ on their a/c.

was at a friends house last nite who had a window unit in the wall slot seemed fine

OH when you said wallspace I thought you meant like an internal wall. I thought those Fedders holes under windows were FOR window units?

who agrees to go on court tv?

doesn't those wall holes have like things to mate the ac?

the guy at p.c. richards said i couldn't put a window unit in the wall slot bc the air intake is different... but the only wall units they had there were like $500. so i wasn't sure if you really can't do it or if he was trying to upsell.

You could spend some extra $$ and buy a portable a/c. I was just looking online and 299 seemed the cheapest price.

don't buy a portable ac

yeah, i thought of that, but i don't want to spend that much.

all signs are pointing towards you spending that extra 200.

i just went out back and surveyed my neighbors' units... i think several of them have the wall units...

i just went out back and surveyed my neighbors' units

XD

haha

i have a/c at home but i haven't turned it on yet. i rarely use the heat either.

august can be brutal in nyc, though perhaps not as bad as late july, but it depends on the year, really. this summer's supposed to be pretty bad, due to la nina, but the badness may moderate by august.

My AC broke a couple days ago and it's going to take a few days to get it fixed. I'm :( and I'm sure my pets are :(((. It's about 100 out here.

I'm impressed by gabbneb not turning on the A/C yet – where were you all w/e?

in my apt, at the gym, shopping and in madison sq pk eating much bbq. i wear light colors, drink lots of water, and try to stay in the shade, including keeping the blinds closed when the sun's facing the windows. shoulda worn some sunscreen tho.

Dodged tornadoes in Chicago to come back to the OVEN that is NYC (and public transport from La Guardia). The desperation for subway aircon was palpable.

NYC in the summer is when all the roaches come out to play. The kid living in the studio I'm moving into in GREENPOINT SKINNY JEANS TRACKBIKES VEGAN FREE RANGE TOFU has fucking food everywhere, so I'm expecting a nice little Joe's Apartment situation (the bedroom is connected to the kitchen).

And grapes, grapes in the fridge.

-- dan selzer, Monday, June 9, 2008 4:28 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

grapes in the freezer is the way to go!

ew. luckily i never get roaches, but centipedes tend to like my apartment when there are drastic weather changes. i haven't seen any in a week or so, but i just bought some spray stuff that i'm going to get all the cracks/baseboards/etc. with.

oh god freezer grapes are ace!

the centipedes eat the roaches

freezer grapes? you can do that?

Wait. There's no a/c on NYC subway trains??

there is on the trains, but not in the stations

Some trains are better than others. When a million chinese and russian dudes are crushing your body for 15 stops into Brooklyn on the N train, the ac does nothing.

i think the worst i've ever had was a packed 1 train at rush hour with no a/c in august during one of those high 90s-100s heatwaves 2 summers ago.

I don't like the frozen grapes. cold in the fridge is good enough for me.

Frozen grapes make my teeth yell at me hardcore.

omg i was just gonna paste this:

i think the smart thing to do in this weather is to obtain white wine and grapes.

i loooove cold grapes

They seem like a better idea than they turn out to be. They hurt my teeth and the flavor gets muted.

This is all very interesting. I have some grapes around and may try the fridge at least.

yes mine are in the fridge now. white wine is good!

oh they definitely go in the fridge, but freezer is news to me.

White wine is brilliant.

Oh hey Surmounter, you going to be around when I'm in NYC? There's some sort of get-together being plotted.

oh yeah who just installed a/c?!?! ME!!!!!

omg necessary evil = laundry room
recovering

frozen green grapes - yes!
i have only frozen berries. but these are good too.

xpost yaay tehresa!
i should just go and get an a/c tomorrow. it's the installation i really am not looking forward to. mainly b/c air conditioners are sharp on the back! silly

um yeah i have a small window unit in my wall hole so i had to cover up a bunch of extra space w/ duct tape which looks plain silly but guess what? i don't care!!!!

ned! when do you plan to be around? omg theresa congratulations

ned is here at the end of the month! we are planning a thing on the 28th.

thanks :) i feel so happy right now.

I'm gonna be on LI that w/e! Maybe I should try to figure out a way to come into the City for an evening.

make it the 28th because i am leaving for maui the next morning!!

i'm going to be on long island that weekend too!! my girlfriend's wedding is on the 27th, but actually i should be back here by the 28th. def keep me in the loop ;)

So South Florida is actually one of the cooler parts of the country for a change, eh?

I spent most of Sunday by the pool reading Sean Willentz and marveling at the wonders of central a/c.