Louisa Facini, 17 months old from Brooklyn, plays in a water feature in Domino Park as a heatwave continued to affect the region in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S., July 21, 2019. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
NEW YORK (Reuters) - With a record-breaking heat wave intensifying over much of the U.S. Midwest and East Coast through the weekend, it was a bad time for Annie McQueen's air conditioner to break down in her New York City apartment.
Cities across the affected regions have opened public cooling centres, and after a sticky night in which the combined forces of a ceiling fan and a floor fan in her bedroom offered little relief, McQueen, 76, headed to one of them on Sunday at a senior centre in downtown Brooklyn.
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