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These young men were among the very few New Yorkers who enjoyed the 95 degree heat that seared the metropolis on July 10, 1937. Seated in a WPA wheelbarrow beside a gushing fire hydrant on the Lower East Side, they hoped the hot spell wouldn't leave too soon.
Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America
Kids on Mulberry St. on the Lower East Side turned a WPA street excavation site into a temporary swimming hole using water from a fire hydrant, July 9, 1936. Temperatures rose to the highest point in New York history that day.
Photo: Associated Press via the Daily Mail
