‘132F’: meet the man calling out NYC’s infernally hot subway stations
A New York City resident is documenting dangerously high temperatures in subway stations using personal thermometers. His findings highlight the extreme heat conditions commuters face during summer months.
Why it matters
It draws attention to the lack of climate-resilient infrastructure in public transit systems as global temperatures rise.
Jack Klein on the 4/5 subway platform at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station in New York, taking temperature readings with a thermometer and his phone on a recent hot August day. Jack Klein takes heat readings, gives fans to overheated passengers and lugs big jugs of water into the stations
Prefer the Guardian on Google O n a recent August day in the subterranean furnace of New York City ’s subway, one bearded, curly-haired man was studying his phone for different reasons than the other wilting passengers – to track the soaring temperatures and ponder how underground train stations can cool down in an era of climate crisis .
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