The famously frigid Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge was less bracing this year, as temperatures on Sunday neared a balmy 50 degrees. It didn't break the record (62 degrees in 1966), but was a relief for thousands who showed up for the 120th-annual event.
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“I think all the people in New York City who are chicken and have been wanting to do this and never did it, today's the day to show up,” Dick Zigun, the self-proclaimed “permanently unelected mayor of Coney Island,” told Gothamist. “It's an easy way to get your certificate." The New York City-based all-women Brazilian Samba Reggae drum line Fogo Azul cheered swimmers at the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge.It was the "fourth or fifth" plunge for Long Island resident Michele Rosello. "If you get into the water the first day of the year, you set it right. Every time I've done this I've had an excellent year.
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