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The ‘golden age’ of steam heating was in the 1920s and 1930s, an expert says. Photograph: Carlos E Serrano/Getty ImagesThe ‘golden age’ of steam heating was in the 1920s and 1930s, an expert says. Photograph: Carlos E Serrano/Getty ImagesNew YorkNineteenth-century technology is finally being phased out in New York City, but its past is deeply entwined with American history Until recently, my girlfriend and I lived in a steam-heated apartment in Manhattan.

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