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10 Tips for Surviving Summer in Bushwick Without an Air Conditioner

If you can’t, or simply won’t afford an AC, here are a few tips for beating the heat that I learned as a human being in Bushwick without an air conditioner.

10 Tips for Surviving Summer in Bushwick Without an Air Conditioner

10 Tips for Surviving Summer in Bushwick Without an Air Conditioner

If you can’t, or simply won’t afford an AC, here are a few tips for beating the heat that I learned as a human being in Bushwick without an air conditioner.

10 Tips for Surviving Summer in Bushwick Without an Air Conditioner

Jeremy Nguyen

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I only have vague memories of summer when I was a child living in New York City, but I remember it being hot. My family eventually moved to California’s temperate Central Coast when I was a tween, effectively escaping the extreme temperatures of the city with a white flag flying high, but I was in for a real treat when I returned to the city years later and experienced NYC summers as an adult.

For a variety of common reasons, I struggled through several summers with neither central air conditioning—it still blows my mind that new buildings in Bushwick now offer this—nor an AC…

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