New Yorkers can’t even have a dishwasher above the second floor much less a generator sitting on their Murphy bed. Now before you all clutch your pearls and head for the fainting couch, it’s that lack of amenities that makes NYers so tough. And we ARE tough.
A dishwasher is worlds from being a generator, and especially during an emergency when the electricity is out.
Why would NYC ban dishwashers?
I had friends studying at Cooper-Union that stayed in tenement apartments that had the water closet in a literal closet with a tiny window, no sink. Claw foot bathtub was to one side of the tiny open kitchen space. It had a fold-up wooden lid with a plastic table cloth between bathing times.
Umm...about them dishwashers, I had one installed, third floor.
We have a home in Florida on a third floor. Lots of hurricanes to survive. Have a dishwasher, washing machine and dryer up there. I’ve never once used the dishwasher. Who needs one? And, since oil and gas production is the family work, we also live in a 5th wheel on the bald prairie in the Bakken oil basin of northwest ND. The WC is smaller than a tiny coat closet. And my husband and I have three very clean dogs with which we share this space. The wind chill factor was -51 F and yeah, one pup had to go out at 3 am. At those temperatures we lock the doggy door and accompany them. Tough? Get out of the city and come out here, and see where the gas for the generators come from. Even our dogs are tougher than youse guys. /bogus sarc ;-)