‘132F’: meet the man calling out NYC’s infernally hot subway stations
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Key context: <p>Jack Klein takes heat readings, gives fans to overheated passengers and lugs big jugs of water into the stations</p><p>On 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.</p><p>Jack Klein, a 31-year-old construction site manager, has in the past two years taken it upon himself to become a sort of guerrilla subway heat operative, sticking teardrop-shaped thermometers to steel beams in seven of the hottest Manhattan stations and posting social media <a href="https://www.instagram.com/newyorklab.co/reel/DMnVea1OP7R/">videos</a> of the hades-like summer temperatures that commuters have to endure.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/26/new-york-subway-extreme-heat">Continue reading...</a> This development from The Guardian highlights ongoing changes in the sector.
Jack Klein takes heat readings, gives fans to overheated passengers and lugs big jugs of water into the stationsOn 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.Jack Klein, a 31-year-old construction site manager, has in the past two years taken it upon himself to become a sort of guerrilla subway heat operative, sticking teardrop-shaped thermometers to steel beams in seven of the hottest Manhattan stations and posting social media videos of the hades-like summer temperatures that commuters have to endure. Continue reading...
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