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Historic NYC Heat Wave

  • July 27, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

In August 1896, a deadly New York City heat wave hit hard on the poor living in jam-packed tenements. City officials reacted slowly, but police commissioner (and future U.S. President) Theodore Roosevelt helped by having his forces hand out free ice in poor neighborhoods.

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