polar bear swim

Temperatures in the low 40s and a brisk wind ensured that everyone suffered

It may have been in the mid-50s, but the Atlantic Ocean was still chilly for yesterday's annual New Year's Day Polar Bear plunge.

Why not, it's going to be in the mid-50s!

For 108 years, the Coney Island Polar Bear Club has been plunging

Though there was plenty to protest at yesterday's New Year's Day Polar

Thanks to the unseasonably warm weather, there was a massive turnout for

Photograph of last year's swim by brooklyn_g_girl on Flickr The Coney

Decked in swimsuits, swim trunks, bikinis and costumes, about a thousand folks