Sorry, Stevie Wonder, but nothing is hotter than July this summer. See how these folks beat the heat up and down the Eastern Seaboard all week.
It’s heating up in Philly. Tour bus salesman Shariff Davis cools off with a drink of water on Philadelphia’s Independence Mall during dangerous afternoon heat Friday. The region is expecting highs in the upper 90s yet again.
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With “feels like” temperatures over 100 degrees and recorded temperatures in the upper 90s, the concrete jungle of New York City is sweltering. People lay in the strong sun in Washington Square Park on Friday afternoon.
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The ice in this New York City vendor’s soft-drink container looks just about ready to melt. Refreshment business must boom on days like this.
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Javier Soler, 20, from West New York, New Jersey, pulls a Willow Smith in this fountain.
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In Chinatown in lower Manhattan, women used umbrellas to shield themselves from the sun’s rays on Thursday. Extreme heat across the tri-state area was in its fifth-straight day.
On Thursday at New York City’s Barclays-Atlantic Ave. subway station, a woman cooled herself off with a magazine, while awaiting the hot breeze from an incoming subway car.
In Union City, New Jersey, Maria Guevara, 66, harnesses her inner child as she cools off in the sprinkler's stream.
In Philadelphia on Thursday, Appliances R Us salesman Lu Pichardo helps a customer carry out an air conditioner. Good purchase.
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This is one way to catch a breeze: a couple soars high above New York City’s boardwalk on a ride at Coney Island.
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In Philadelphia on Thursday, Angel Figueroa stood outside his un–air conditioned shop. But his neighbor Jose Leyes, seated, had beat him to the shady spot.
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Hudson the polar bear cools off by playing with a block of ice at the Brookfield Zoo on Thursday in Illinois.
Tour guide Tyler-Marie Council was lauded for leading her group even through 95-degree heat down Wall Street on Wednesday.
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On Wednesday in Alexandria, Virginia, camp counselor Marco Lin, 16, plays with Rikhil Thuramalla, 7, and other campers at Camden Run wave pool. In heat like this, what could be better than being in camp?
In Hoboken, New Jersey, on Wednesday, Miguel Torres, 77, rides his electric wheelchair near–but not through–a fountain at Pier A Park.
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Channeling their inner Ramones, these kids took a ride to New York City’s Rockaway Beach on Wednesday to play in the waves.
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A man naps in the hot sun on Wednesday at Rockaway Beach in New York City. Relief from the heat won’t come until Saturday night, at the earliest.
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The Delaware River provides a much-needed source of cool water for Lindsey Cuellar, 10, from Wenonah, New Jersey, and her brothers, Adrian, 4, Victor, 13, and cousin Mariana Arrieta, 7, from Ohio.
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Playground sprinkler systems have replaced open hydrants as the way for kids to beat the heat in New York City on Wednesday.
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A man takes a break on a bench near New York City’s Times Square on Tuesday, in the middle of a tiring–and seemingly never-ending–heat wave.
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It was a good day for sunbathing—if not much else—in New York City’s Hudson River Park on Tuesday.
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A tough day to be working outside: roofer Juan Belis toils in the excessive heat Tuesday in Philadelphia, despite warnings.
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The Lower Falls of the Swift River in Albany, New Hampshire, provide some chills for people during the weeklong heat wave.
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In Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, people return from boating on the Merrimack River on a hot summer evening. Luckily for them, the sun has set as they walk across a dock at the Abe Bashara Boathouse.
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