It could be worse: remembering a time without air-conditioning in NYC

… had their first bitter taste of what will be weatherwise this summer but its important to keep in mind that as … Matthew Murphy head of cataloguing and metadata at the NewYork Historical Society dug up a New York Times article … reports three deaths and seven prostrations at Coney Island where 600000 people had headed for relief when temperatures …

By Alanna Schubach |June 20, 2017 - 9:59AM