‘132F’: meet the man calling out NYC’s infernally hot subway stations

Jack Klein takes heat readings, gives fans to overheated passengers and lugs big jugs of water into the stations On a recent August day in the subterranean furnace of New York City ’s subway, one bearded, curly-haired man was studying his phone for different reasons than the other wilting passengers – to track the soaring temperatures and ponder how underground train stations can cool down in an era of climate crisis . Jack Klein, a 31-year-old construction site manager, has in the past two years taken it upon himself to become a sort of guerrilla subway heat operative, sticking teardrop-shaped thermometers to steel beams in seven of the hottest Manhattan stations and posting social media vi

What is happening The Guardian reports: Jack Klein takes heat readings, gives fans to overheated passengers and lugs big jugs of water into the stations On a recent August day in the subterranean furnace of New York City ’s subway, one bearded, curly-haired man was studying his phone for different reasons than the other wilting passengers – to track the soaring temperatures and ponder how underground train stations can cool down in an era of climate crisis . Jack Klein, a 31-year-old construction site manager, has in the past two years taken it upon himself to become a sort of guerrilla subway heat operative, sticking teardrop-shaped thermometers to steel beams in seven of the hottest Manhattan stations and posting social media vi The problem The public problem in this report is the one named by the source: “‘132F’: meet the man calling out NYC’s infernally hot subway stations”. A response on MLAIEL should not add a cause, a number, or a remedy the source does not state. Open the source for the detail. What a team can do on MLAIEL A team can look at the transport problem the source describes — a cut, a delay, a closure, or a safety warning — and open a project whose claims match that report. Source The Guardian — ‘132F’: meet the man calling out NYC’s infernally hot subway stations https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/26/new-york-subway-extreme-heat