Stay connected with community stories that matter: Visit our homepage <\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s pretty aggravating,\u201d said Tirado. She was frustrated that she and her friend had to invent their own cooling aid because the splashpad sprinklers in the park weren\u2019t working.<\/p>\n
She said that she and Manzano had to get creative after some other parents showed their own frustration.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of them was actually angry that no water was on,\u201d Tirado said, \u201cand the parents, some of them actually left.\u201d<\/p>\n
Manzano said that they\u2019d tried to get the splashpad activated.<\/p>\n
\u201cI even had to make a call to 311, you know, and [was] like, \u2018Hey, can you guys turn on the sprinklers, it\u2019s excessively hot. There\u2019s a lot of kids here,\u2019 and they said they can definitely put in a report, but it\u2019s up to the workers here.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said that they also approached park workers and asked them to activate the water facilities, but it didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n
That was in spite of Mayor Zohran Mamdani saying on Tuesday that he\u2019s implemented a heat emergency plan for the city.<\/p>\n
What that means, he said, was \u201cHelping our neighbors stay safe in this extreme heat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Turning on sprinklers in parks accomplishes that, the two mothers said, adding that they\u2019d gone to Jefferson Park\u2019s splashpad after leaving another park, five blocks away, whose sprinklers weren\u2019t working either.<\/p>\n
For his part, Mayor Mamdani said that \u201chelping neighbors stay safe in the extreme heat\u201d means that \u201cWe\u2019re going to have city workers out across the five boroughs, and they\u2019re going to be welcoming people into cooling centers.\u201d<\/p>\n
That activity was definitely happening on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The city funds programs like the Manhattan Outreach Consortium. It\u2019s a group of outreach organizations that send workers out onto the streets of the city to serve people in need directly, especially people who are unhoused and emotionally disturbed.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, consortium workers, including people like James Martin, the assistant director of the CUCS, were with two co-workers driving around Harlem and East Harlem, talking with some of the most vulnerable residents, and providing basic resources for them in the high heat.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe check those spots with water, and sunscreen,\u201d Martin said, adding that their efforts to help residents beat the heat were also consistent with his organization\u2019s core mission.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re trying to connect people to housing at the same time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Regarding park sprinklers and other water-cooling apparatus not working in city parks, a New York City Parks Department spokesperson told PIX11 News that 84 percent of its fountains, sprinklers, and splashpads were turned on and operating.<\/p>\n
The 90-plus degree temperatures are expected to persist through Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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