Photos: How New Yorkers are staying cool in the heat wave
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Children play with water guns and an inflatable pool in Brower Park, Crown Heights, on Friday July 22nd.
Surfers ride waves at Rockaway Beach on Saturday, July 23rd.
Surfers Lucas Tay and Irene Ryu.
Tameka Jones steps through an opened fire hydrant on Broadway in West Harlem on Saturday, July 23rd.
Erick Hamer in the gym basement of the Manhattanville Cooling Center.
Victoria Duffee and her daughter Francis at the Greenpoint Library.
USPS Mail Carrier Khaliq Little wears a damp cloth to keep cool as he delivers on his route.
Kids play in an inflatable water slide on Greene Avenue in Bed Stuy during a block party.
Kids play in an inflatable water slide on Greene Avenue in Bed Stuy during a block party.
A girl plays in an fire hydrant at a block party in Bed Stuy.