When summer temperatures start to rise,  you can relax in comfort in some of the coolest locations in New York City.  You may want to check out:

• GreenAcre Park  (E. 51^st Street between Second and Third Avenues.)
• The High Line (just north of 14^th Street.)
• The Sunning Pier (Gantry Plaza State Park, Long Island City, Queens.)
• Riverview Terrace at Sutton Place Park (East River between 56^th and 57^th Sts.)
• Brooklyn Bridge Park (Main St at Plymouth, DUMBO, Brooklyn.)
• McCarren Park Pool (Williamsburg, Brooklyn.)

On the windy side:

• Hudson River Park Pier 45
• Carl Shulruz Park
• West 79^th Street Boat Basin Cafe

More shade:

• Socrates Sculpture Park
• Memorial Grove in Van Cortlandt Park
• The Ravine in Prospect Park

Indoors:

• Brooklyn Art Museum Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Ave. ,Fort Green, Brooklyn.)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 Fifth Ave. at 82^nd St.)
• The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (Fifth Ave. at 42^nd St.)

Also, here’s a copy of the New York City Ready: Beat the Heat brochure!

Source: Time Out New York