As summer heats up, imagine how it was before air conditioning during the 1896 New York City heat wave, which killed almost 1,500 people many of whom are buried at Green-Wood cemetery.
In Edward Kohn's Hot Time in the Old Town, he talks about how the heat wave brought to prominence then commissioner Teddy Roosevelt. Afterward Kohn’s talk, Green-Wood historian Jeff Richman will take you on a trolly tour of gravesites of many of the victims, as well as other people from that time.
