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‘132F’: meet the man calling out NYC’s infernally hot subway stations
Jack Klein takes heat readings, gives fans to overheated passengers and lugs big jugs of water into the stations
TL;DR
- Jack Klein monitors and documents extreme heat in NYC subway stations, posting findings on social media.
- Temperatures in some stations, including the heat index, have reached dangerous levels, impacting passengers and staff.
- Klein distributes water and advocates for better cooling solutions, viewing the heat as a public health crisis.
- The subway system's infrastructure, built for a different climate, struggles with rising global temperatures.
- A new study will investigate capturing station heat and transferring it underground to cool platforms and heat nearby buildings.
- Implementing such a system would be expensive and take many years, leaving current riders to endure the heat with interim measures.