Inside NYCs coldest spots as outside temps soar past 100: Go in the freezer

Beating the heat seems like an impossible feat.New Yorkers are desperately seeking refuge from the blistering heat scorching the Big Apple this week — and are desperately ducking into any store, shadow or corner that offers some relief.Temperatures hovered around 100 degrees Tuesday, according to a thermometer toted around the city by The Post — but the real feel clocked in at an incredible 113 in some parts of the Big Apple.The sweltering heat was enough to make even a butcher shop look like paradise — and its meat-filled freezers like a getaway.“Best part about being a butcher on days like this, you want to cool off, you go in the freezer! Coldest place in the city,” Robert Giammarinaro, 64, the owner of Robert’s Butcher Shop in Bayside, told The Post.The 39-year-old shop’s freezer was recording an icy 26 degrees — while The Post’s thermometer registered a jaw-dropping 121 degrees on the hot sidewalk outside.The 35th Avenue shop also had three air conditioners running throughout the shop, otherwise “you’d die,” Giammarinaro said.Luckily, he makes up for the financial damages the ACs cost on hot days — prepared foods like pastas, salads and meatloaf fly off the shelves on hot days because customers don’t want to have to stand over a hot stove themselves.“It doesn’t bother me because I love New York.I love the weather in New York.

I love the changing seasons.There’s no place better. I’ve been a lot of places, all over the world, but there’s no other place I would rather live and work than right here,” said Giammarinaro.In Brooklyn, Mel Watkins and his daughter, 9-year-old Makenzi Brown, found refuge in a Cypress Hills Baskin-Robbins.An ice cream parlor might seem like a more typical place to cool off — but the pair was met with a broken AC.It was 75 degrees inside the shop, while outside teetered on 102.“When I go outside, it feels like I’m going to have a heat stroke – that’s how hot it is.

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