Relief-Seekers Crowd City Pools
WNYC News | Jul 12, 2010
New York, NY —
On the third day of the heat wave, New Yorkers trying to escape the torrid weather packed into the pool at Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem. Outside the pool, 3 members of the city's summer youth employment program sat guarding a garden hose from theft.
One of them, Josie Sahada noted that the heat was making tempers rise.
SAHADA: Its getting a lot more hectic, more violence going on, the pool is getting like out of control, people getting arrested and stuff. I guess the heat is affecting everyone and everyone wants to come in, have fun, act all crazy and you know people are just taking advantage.
REPORTER: No attempted hose thefts were reported.
