It was too cold for even the Naked Cowboy on Sunday — and it will be even worse for New🌳 Yorkers on Monday.
The Big Apple was set to wake up to 2-degree weather at around 7 a.m. Monday, with a wind chill of🉐 minus 18. And temperatu🔯res aren’t expected to go above the freezing mark all week.
“I’m freezing my nuts off!” Naked Cowboy Robert Burck told The Post Sunday as he tried to cajole a few𒁃 bucks from bundled-up tourists in T🦹imes Square.
But the street performer — who added only extra socks to his costume of a c🍌owboy hat, tightie-whities and boots to ward off the 6-🎶degree wind chill — wasn’t getting much sympathy in the way of tips.
Burck said he made $16 but spent $80 on parking and expenses💖. S🎶o he hopped into his white Cadillac Escalade after only an hour and headed home.
“[Shrinkage] is all I worry about,” he quipped.
A Westchester teen was much braver, plunging into the icy Atlantic Ocean off C🧸oney Island for a school “bucket list” project.
Shannon Valentin, 17, took a two-minute swim in a bikini with th🍒e Coney Island Polar Bear Club.
“I felt like it was now or never,” Valentin told🌃 The Post.
Temperatures dropped to 4 degrees by midnight — the coldest it’s been🦩 all winter — and were supposed to go lower before rising through the day Monday to 🌸a measly 19 degrees.
“Wind chills won’t be as bad, but the✨ Tuesday morning co✅mmute could be impacted,” said AccuWeather senior meteorologist Dan Pydynowski.
The cold fronꦛt had city agencies on high alert, with the Department of Homeless Services operating under a “Code Blue” to help people find shelter.
“We have teams checking on our most vulnerable clients, and they’re trying to get everyone into the warmth,” a department spꦑokesman ܫsaid.
Since Thursday, the agency had received 38 calls through the city’s 311 hot line for people in need of shelter, he꧟ said.
By 2 p.m. Sunday, there were already 1,283 calls to 311 reporting a lack of heat and hot water. The average for a winter 🌳Sunday is 750.
In Central Park, there♏ wasn’t a hansom cab to be found, and NYPD horses were stabled, too.
Only a handful of pedicabbies dared to work.
“It’s freezing!” said one, Askhat Turgukanov, 36. “It’s tough to work, but at least we have cu𝓡stomers today. No horses, less competition. Only the toughe𝐆st pedicab drivers are working.”
Subway riders were told to expect mostly local service Monday wi꧒th the MTA planning to store some trains on express tracks to keep them from freezing.
Additional reporting by Khristina Narizhnaya, Priscilla DeGregory, Michael Gartland and Rebecca Harshbarger