I wonder if there is a way to look at local temp data from around the area like we look at snowfall data for the March 1888 blizzard and see that southern Brooklyn got 26 inches and northern Queens got 32 inches.
As an example, in July 1966, JFK hit 104 and LGA hit 107, while Newark was only 105 and NYC only hit 103. I wonder why this happened in such a dry summer?
July 1966 still holds the heat records for both JFK and LGA. in July 2011 JFK got to 103 and LGA got to 104, same as NYC.