Freezing in New York

We had our first trip back to New York in 8 months and we’ve only visited briefly in the winter before – 2 days after Christmas in 2007 – and it wasn’t as cold as this trip. Things had frozen. The temperature was -11C (12F). I’ve never been so cold before. If we lived there we’d have proper coats and The Mister would have to wear a hat but we piled on layers, decided to only be outside for about 10 minutes max at a time so we just scurried to the places we needed to be on the subway (yes freezing in the stations too!). The fountain in Bryant Park was almost frozen over. Someone spilled coffee outside Culture Espresso and it froze so a guy had to come scrape it off to stop people slipping on it!