New Yorkers and visitors gravitate towards parks with fountains in an effort to cool off.

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New Yorkers and visitors gravitate towards parks with fountains on Friday, June 29, 2012, the start of a very long Independence Day weekend, like the fountain in Washington Square Park, in an effort to cool off. Today was the first day of a forecast heat wave with the temperatures in the Northeast topping 90 degrees. ( © Richard B. Levine)

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Location: new york ny usa north america
Photo credit: © Richard Levine / Alamy / Afripics
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