{"id":548,"date":"2026-08-06T15:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessrelocationdigest.com\/?p=548"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:11:15","slug":"whos-staying-cool-in-new-yorks-scorching-summers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessrelocationdigest.com\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s staying cool in New York\u2019s scorching summers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It\u2019s hot outside. At times, record breakingly hot. And it\u2019s even hotter when you don\u2019t have air conditioning. The U.S. Census Bureau released new estimates earlier this year of how many households have AC, with New York ranking 40th nationwide in air conditioning access at 90.2%. Since the summer heat peaked in July, here\u2019s a look at how AC access differs across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessrelocationdigest.com\/?p=546\">Mamdani and allies celebrate El-Sayed\u2019s victory in Michigan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe aria-label=\"Choropleth map\" data-external=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"778\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-wdT3q\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/wdT3q\/2\/\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"Air conditioning access\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Urban vs. rural<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Across the state, urban areas tend to have higher rates of AC installed in homes. Three of the five counties with the lowest rates of AC were in or near the Adirondacks. The suburbs around New York City \u2013 including Long Island\u2019s Nassau County, which had the state\u2019s highest rate at 97% \u2013 were the best-performing areas. Other upstate urban areas, including the counties containing Buffalo, Albany, Rochester and Syracuse, were either on par with New York City\u2019s high rates of AC or slightly below it.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessrelocationdigest.com\/?p=544\">Pataki urges candidates to accept gubernatorial election results<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>New York City<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the city, only the Bronx\u2019s AC install rate of 87.7% fell below 90%. The Bronx and Brooklyn, which have the lowest median incomes in the city, also had the lowest AC access rates. Staten Island had the highest rate in the city and the third-highest in the state at 96.6%. However, one important point with the data is that it does not distinguish between a household having AC and actually using it. According to a survey released in 2020, 15% of city residents that had a household AC unit did not use it during hot weather \u2013 a number that has likely increased given Con Edison\u2019s rising electric rates.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessrelocationdigest.com\/?p=542\">Editor\u2019s note: My slightly scary upstate swing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some counties, 1 in 3 households don\u2019t have air conditioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,30],"tags":[7,31],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york-state","category-personality","tag-new-york-state","tag-personality"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Who\u2019s staying cool in New York\u2019s scorching summers? 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