Inside the car, they should open a window a little for fresh air and turn on the engine for ten or fifteen minutes every hour for heat.
VOA: special.2010.01.05
There's an upside to all this: As you know, the name New York City is Dutch for "No Central Air, " and that makes windowair conditioners the great leveler.
As this was long before windowair conditioners bested the noises of a neighborhood's tropical nights, the broadcast blanketed the block from Keer to Chancellor a block on which not a single Republican lived in any of the thirtyodd two-and-a-half-family houses or in the small new apartment building at the Chancellor Avenue corner.