within the five boroughs and immediate metro area it’s really the only large open field. it’s quite possibly the least affected by man-made structures of all the sites.
I always laugh at the Newark reading. A more disgusting place to take a weather observation I can’t think of: cement, airport, Marine terminal, boats, planes, trains… And you wonder why it’s always so hot.
if you could see Newark from the air, it looks like a kid went wild with every micro machine city possible pushed together on a small table… and there was nothing cooler than micro machines