Photos by Stacie Joy
An Extreme Heat Watch remains in effect citywide through 9 p.m. Saturday. The dangerous heat is expected to continue through the July 4 holiday weekend, with temperatures easing only slightly.
The city says it is expanding efforts to help New Yorkers stay safe, including:
• Opening hundreds of cooling centers across the five boroughs.
• Deploying more than a dozen Cooling Outreach On-Location (COOL) vans to provide water, wellness checks, medical care and transportation to cooling centers or health-care facilities for vulnerable New Yorkers.
• Expanding pop-up cooling stations with cold water, misting fans and cooling towels for outdoor workers, including street vendors, delivery workers and day laborers.
• Displaying walking directions to the nearest cooling center on more than 2,200 LinkNYC kiosks citywide.
Mayor Mamdani urged residents to take the prolonged stretch of extreme heat seriously (so no EVG one-liners here), stay hydrated, limit time outdoors when possible, and check in on neighbors, particularly older adults and others who may be more vulnerable to the heat.
"We're staring down what could be the hottest day New York City has seen in over a decade — and City government is taking historic measures to keep all New Yorkers cool and safe," Mamdani said in a media advisory. "Stay inside, look out for your neighbors, drink plenty of water, and watch out for signs of heat exhaustion such as confusion, nausea, and trouble breathing."
You can find the nearest cooling center or playground spray showers by calling 311 or using the city's Cooling Center Finder via this link.
Closer to home, cooling center options are limited, aside from the Tompkins Square and Ottendorfer library branches. Most of the options are for senior residents:
• Polish and Slavic Center, Inc. Older Adult Center
103 E. Seventh St.
9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday
• Meltzer Social Club, Older Adult Center
94 E. First St.
8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday-Friday
• Educational Alliance Sirovich, Older Adult Center
331 E. 12th St.
8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday
• UJCES Lillian Wald OAC Center, Older Adult Center
12 Avenue D
8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday-Friday
• Petco Union Square
Indoor - Cooling Center
44 Union Square Eaast
9 a.m. to 9 p.m., daily
ConEd officials have also ramped up messaging...
We are mobilizing and activating our Emergency Response Center in advance of extreme heat and potential storms starting Wednesday. Our crews are working 24/7 to respond to any power issues and keep service reliable. Please use energy efficiently to stay safe and comfortable… pic.twitter.com/ZmSO2s3Yxi
— Con Edison (@ConEdison) June 30, 2026
5 comments:
We have 92 libraries in the city. They're all cooling centers. Yet they will all be closed during the height of the heatwave the 3,4,5th of July. How dumb... how inefficient can we be. Where is our councilman. I emailed his office this morning and was emailed back that there was nobody to answer it. Good old Harvey... and a progressive to boot.
Open libraries have to be staffed properly, which is not so easy last-minute over a big holiday weekend when many go out of town. I would also imagine under the union contract employees working holidays get paid extra. They just announced that three will be open, but the only one in Manhattan is Countee Cullen, which is way uptown.
The city knew the heat was coming. So no surprise. The libraries were an obvious solution. Staffing could have been arranged. But politicians aren't very creative... nor very aggressive. They follow the lead of the party. And One Party Rule doesn't allow leadership to be challenged. So the people of New York suffer.
Yeah, you make an absolute good point. I will be packing my bags so I can leave this joke of a place in a few months. Nothing makes any sense in the country anymore except the super rich have gotten richer.
Result of closing Indian Point.
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