In a very perverse way, this is like the summer version of an I-95 snowstorm that hit everyone from us to New England - of course you can't really "enjoy" it because it feels like death outside, but everyone got to experience the extreme-ness.
yeah it definitely stays cooler than it used to - I'd imagine midtown is pushing 100F at the moment. Heat waves like this in NY are horrible - the subway stations easily get to like 120-130F.
regional round up:
BOS at 91 (low of 78)
EWR is at 96 already lol (low of 82)
NYC at 94F (low of 82) - should be the first 100 there since the 2010s
LGA at 94F (low of 84) - the Queens/Brooklyn heat island is absolutely fierce.
PHL at 94F (low of 80)
This is a proper Acela corridor heat wave.