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Tuesday, Jul 18
Media In Heat: How Cool Is It In Your Office Today?
As a heat wave grips New York and rest of the country today — thanks, Al Gore — we wondered whose media office was the coolest. The winner: Deadspin's Will Leitch, whose "office" — room 604 at the Casino Queen in East St. Louis — is some 50 degrees cooler than it is outside.
In New York:
Address: 229 West 43rd Street
Temperature Inside: 70+ degrees
Who Works There: Executive editor Bill Keller et al.
Address: 4 Times Square
Temparature Inside: 72 (cut back on AC due to ConEd request)
Who Works There: Vogue, W, Glamour et al.
Address: 224 W 57th St
Temperature Inside: 74
Who Works There: Esquire, Cathy Black et al.
Address: Broadway, New York
Temperature Inside: 70 degrees
Who Works There: president Mike Marchesano, Billboard, Editor & Publisher et al.
Address: 1675 broadway, 28th Floor
Temperature Inside: 70 degress
Who Works There: William Hooks, associate art director
Address: 71 West 23rd Street, Floor 13
Temperature Inside: 73 degrees
Who Works There: Andy Cohn, publisher
Address: 114 W. 26 St., 3rd floor
Temperature Inside: 75 degrees
Who Works There: Hamilton Nolan, media reporter
Address: 494 Broadway, 4th Floor
Temperature Inside: 69 degrees
Who Works There: Us
7494 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite 303
Los Angeles
Temperature Inside: 74 degrees
Temperature Outside: 83 degrees
Who Works There: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Elsewhere:
Office: Room 604 of the hotel at the Casino Queen in East St. Louis, Illinois. Apparently casinos have high-speed internet — who knew?
Temperature Inside: 50 degrees, with lithium coming in through the vents
Temperature Outside: 101 degrees; The Mississippi River is in a boil; it's so hot that four tourists touched the St. Louis Arch and vanished in a cloud of vapor
Office: Los Angeles
Temperature Inside: A climate-controlled 70 degrees, though the controls are right next to me, wielding the power of an office manager
Temperature Outside: A sunshiny and dry 85 degrees, with nary a cloud in the sky, but plenty of pollution to inhale
Office: My apartment, hottest part of Brooklyn (I'm sure of it)
Temperature Inside: 175 airconditionedless degrees (estimate)
Office: 7th floor of an office building in Nashville, four floors below Keith Urban's record label — and still no Nicole Kidman sighting
Temperature Inside: < 70 degrees (a constant complaint of staff who must always wear sweaters to meetings in my office)
Temperature Outside: 94 (on the way to 98) — and it's the good old fashioned high humidity kind of heat, not any of that "dry" stuff
Office: South Norwalk, CT
Temperature Inside: 72
Temperature Outside: 95
Who Works There: Bill Mickey, senior editor
Office: 1015 15th St., NW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC
Temperature Inside: 70 degrees
Temperature Outside: 98 degrees
Who Works There: Patrick W. Gavin, associate editorial page editor; editor, FishbowlDC
Office: Soho Apple Store
Temperature Inside: 66 degrees
Office: On the middle of an island, in the middle of a lake, in the Berkshires
Temperature Inside: 78 degrees
Temperature Outside: 98 degrees
Office: 1992 Dodge Ram van conversion (On book tour, today in Dallas)
Temperature Inside: 82 degrees, with windows open, while driving at 60mph
Temperature Outside: 103
Office: 45 Main Street, Suite 800, Brooklyn, NY
Temperature Inside: 69-70 degrees
Who Works There: Heather Graham, associate editor
The Home Offices:
Office: Oak Hill, NY
Temperature Inside: 72 degrees
Temperature Outside: 84 degrees
Office: home/office in Westwood, CA
Temperature Inside: 65 degrees (my central air conditioning is going full blast)
Temperature Outside: 86 degrees (feels like 110 degrees)
Office: luxury loft, Canal St., New York
Temperature Inside: A balmy 68 degrees
Office: home basement, Denver
Temperature Inside: 73 degrees
Temperature Outside: 101 degrees
Office: Basement of a stone farmhouse, Vermont
Temperature Inside: 74 degrees. Add ten degrees for each deadline. That's makes it 94 degrees right now.
Temperature Outside: 84; 57% humidity
Office: Bedroom, New York
Temperature Inside: Hot enough that I'm typing naked; Okay, that was a lie, but close to naked
Office: My living room couch, Mulberry St., New York
Temperature Inside: Just cool enough not to sit here marinating in my own ripeness (but only if I sit 4 inches from the AC)
Office: Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
Temperature Inside: 74 degrees
Temperature Outside: 95 degrees (Weather.com says it feels like 101)
EARLIER: Nation Battles Sizzling Heat As Copy Editors Battle Clichés
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