The National Weather Service on Thursday reported the morning’s lowest temperature at Central Park was 19 degrees, tying it for the second-coldest Thanksgiving Day in New York City’s history, and the coldest since 1901. (Temperatures dipped to 15 degrees in 1871.)
At drugstores near the parade route, which runs from the Upper West Side to Herald Square, entire displays of handwarmers had sold out before the parade even began. Claire Churchwell, 27, stood in the aisle of a Duane Reade on Columbus Avenue holding her sneakers in her hand and inspecting her feet for frostbite. Finding none, she put on three newly purchased socks on each foot and headed back into the cold.
For the nine extended members of the Diaz family, the cold was too much. They lasted 32 minutes into the parade, before heading home. (To be fair, they had staked out their seats on icy metal bleachers since 7 a.m.) “It’s the tingling in the feet,” said Louis Diaz, 59, a superintendent. “We are going to go home and watch it on TV.”
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