{"id":113,"date":"2016-12-20T10:19:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T10:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/content-manager\/?post_type=studies&p=4599"},"modified":"2016-12-20T16:30:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:30:46","slug":"heat-complaints-up-20-year-over-year-bronx-cooler-than-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/research\/heat-complaints-up-20-year-over-year-bronx-cooler-than-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Heat Complaints up 20% Year over Year \u2013 Bronx Cooler than Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

As this year’s first “polar vortex” passes and the first day of winter arrives, hopefully you\u2019ve found something good in the pocket of your old winter coat. Winter is undoubtedly one of the most stylish seasons of the year, with so many different ways to layer up. Unfortunately, many New Yorkers, in at least 20,000 buildings that have reported heat complaints<\/strong>, may have to keep their coats on even when they\u2019re not braving the winter weather.<\/p>\n

This \u201cHeat Season\u201d, 311 has seen a sharp increase<\/a> in calls versus the same period last year, despite us having a similarly mild Fall. Removing repeated same-day calls, we see that complaints are up 20% from last year, with 57,820 heat complaints coming in<\/strong> this October 1st<\/sup> \u2013 December 18th<\/sup>, whereas last year there were 48,174 complaints<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This weekend\u2019s “polar vortex” brought in 4,339 unique complaints<\/strong>, a hefty amount that certainly kept 311 operators busy, but not enough to take credit for the sharp uptick in Heat Complaints.<\/p>\n

To get a better picture of how these heat complaints are spread out, we put them on a map, and normalized neighborhoods based on the number of rental units according to the American Community Survey<\/a>. Addresses that amassed the most complaints are represented with markers. The raw data can be found on NYC’s OpenData portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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