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Video: Never Too Cold for a Polar Bear Swim

by Joanna Plucinska

Bathing suit-clad New Yorkers are a common sight on the beaches of Coney Island – in the summertime. But, in the dead of winter, they still dot the shoreline, running in and out of the ocean. They’re members of the Polar Bear Club, a group of people, young and old, who take weekly dips in the icy waters of the Atlantic in the middle of the winter.

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