Arts & Entertainment Ice, ice, baby: Con Ed chips in with chilly chunks By amNY Posted on November 3, 2012 Sign up for our amNewYork email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! 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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