He’s freezing the day! A Brooklyn model has spent nearly every morning with a bone-chilling dip in the icy waters of Coney Island for decades — and this weekend’s monster Winter Storm Fern wasn’t ...

The new year arrived windy and freezing in Brooklyn, but bone-chilling weather couldn’t stop tradition as thousands of people welcomed 2026 at the Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge. After a few years of ...

Out with the old, in with the cold! Thousands of thrill-seekers brrr-aved frigid 27-degree weather to kick off the New Year with an icy splash at Coney Island’s annual polar plunge Thursday. Some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He’s freezing the day! A Brooklyn model has spent nearly every morning with a bone-chilling dip in the icy waters of Coney Island ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A polar bear with its cub in Svalbard, Norway. Jon Aars / Norwegian Polar Institute In parts of the Arctic, polar bears are in ...

For Bethpage resident Paula Braband, February on Long Island doesn’t mean hibernating indoors. It means keeping a family tradition alive by plunging into the icy cold Atlantic. Braband, a health care ...

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Rising Arctic temperatures and melting sea ice could be causing cold air to flow into the Northern Hemisphere. But not all scientists agree. By Eric Niiler The polar vortex is a ribbon of ...

For the first time ever, the annual polar bear plunge that draws thousands to Long Beach’s boardwalk and raises hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Make-A-Wish Foundation will not take place on ...

The New York Special Olympics has postponed its annual Freezin’ for a Reason Polar Plunge because of unsafe weather conditions. The event, originally scheduled for Feb. 7 at North Hempstead Beach Park ...