That's one reason I love NYC, against many reasons I don't... pretty much all homes in the city/brooklyn are radiator heated... meaning no forced air heating/cooling which both remove moisture from the air. It's 40% humidity outside and it's the dead of winter. In the summer it's like 50% max... D.C. is like 100% humidity in the summer and 10% in the winter.
There is something to be said about living near the water (which surrounds NYC on all fronts), mild winters, mild summers, and plenty of wonderful humidity when you need it (winter) and not much when you don't in the summer!
I am a little suburban kid at heart, so I have to have my 2 window a/c units to keep the temps down in the summer, but a lot of people do without here in the city. They say NYC residents use like 1/3 the energy of the rest of the US... cookie for me!
Sorry some of this isn't particularly relavent, but thought it would be interesting to others fighting the humidity wars during the winter. We used to go through 4-5 gallons of water a day in our apartment in DC, we thought it would be the same here, but low and behold I don't need a humidifier at all!
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