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Ice, ice, baby: Con Ed chips in with chilly chunks

By amNY Posted on November 3, 2012

ice — On Thursday in Union Square, Con Ed distributed blocks of ice that residents could put in their unpowered refrigerators to keep food chilled. There was a long line for the frozen hot commodity. Older residents remembered how refrigerators used to be called “ice boxes” back in the day, when they really were cooled by large blocks of ice that the iceman would drop off whenever he would “cometh.” At right, Villager Diane Waller showed her ice. Photos by Tequila Minsky

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