"Jack Klein, a 31-year-old construction site manager, has in the past two years taken it upon himself to become a sort of guerrilla subway heat operative, sticking teardrop-shaped thermometers to steel beams in seven of the hottest Manhattan stations and posting social media videos of the Hades-like summer temperatures that commuters have to endure.
“This line must be cursed,” Klein said on the 4/5 line platform at 14th Street-Union Square, one of the city’s most blistering stations, as he dangled another of the monitors and saw the digits climb to 99 Fahrenheit, a good 10 degrees hotter than aboveground."
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First seen: 2026-08-31 ·
Last seen: 2026-08-31 ·
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