New Yorkers Beat the Heat 1950s-Style 24 and Sept. 4—a record-setting 12 days in a row. And that’s not even accounting for individual 90-plus days in between.As the New York Times explained in a recent look back at that wave, air-conditioning was far from widespread at the time. Previous Next Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2019-03-03 spiel