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Meet the man who makes ice sculptures for the Parks Dept.

Ice shavings were flying on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018, as Shintaro Okamoto took a chain saw to a rectangular slab of ice and whittled it down to a crystalline figure. The sculptor, who owns Okamoto Studio in Long Island City, was busy preparing three ice designs for the Parks Department’s Winter Jam in Central Park on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018 — the squirrel, the NYC Parks logo and a snowflake, which is the event’s logo.