How Cold Has It Been? East River Ice Flows Passing Roosevelt Island & Queens Today

It’s been extremely cold the last few days.

The Roosevelt Island Twitterverse reports:

@Rooseveltisland Ice floes on the river. Amazing! pic.twitter.com/jjHP1QgKZv

Adriana Davis (@adriananyc) January 7, 2018

Update: hell hath frozen over Roosevelt Island https://t.co/ztUxCZuEJB

ivi ivs (@ivanahumpsalot) January 7, 2018

Update: hell hath frozen over

A post shared by Ivana Stojkov (@iviivz) on Jan 7, 2018 at 12:19pm PST

Roosevelt Island resident Janet Falk shares this video

and reports:

If you look closely, the ice on the Queens side is moving up town and the ice closer to the island is circling.

Fortunately, temperatures

start to warm up this week. UPDATE 1/8:

This is how cold its been in NYC! The East River is freezing over! #rooseveltisland pic.twitter.com/6MZ1zM979L

FINNYRKER (@NYTTYTTYY) January 8, 2018