In case your sweaty palms and red cheeks haven’t tipped you off, the city is baking under a heat wave. With temperatures creeping near 100 degrees, your standard pool and sputtering air conditioner probab♚ly won’t cut it.
Our ad♏vice? Cool it at one 🥂of these indoor ice-skating rinks.
At , a haven of climate-controlled fun, itꦡ may be hard to keep your eyes off the Hudson River views and on the ice. The rink has open skating Saturday and Sunday, from 1 to 3:50 p.m., and admission is $13; skates and helmets rent, respectively, for $7 and $5. You can also sign up online for boot camp-style fitness classes and skating lessons on Saturdays. 61 Chelsea Piers, at 21st Street
at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field has two NHL-size rinks, which might be enough ice to survive the heat. Open skating is from 1:45 to 6 p.m. and 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday and 12:30 to 6 p.m. Sunday. Admissi🦹on is $12 ($10 for kids) and skates rent for $6. Lockers are free, if you bring a lock. 3159 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn
Flee the heat in Flushing, Queens, at . Public hours Saturday are noon to 4:45 p.m. and 8 to 9:50 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 4:45 p.m. Admission is $10 — but if you’re serious about your triple lutz, opt for one of the figure-skating sessions ($23) that run other times throughout the weekend. Skate rentals are $6; lockers, 75 cents. 13104 Meridian Road, Flushing