NYC Winter Oddities: Things Only City Parents Understand.
At The Co-op School, progressive education begins with joy. We celebrate the holistic development of each child and encourage their curiosity at every opportunity.
Winter in New York has its own language — and city parents speak it fluently. It starts with the wind at 59th and Lex, the kind that doesn’t just blow past you but seems to choose you personally, pushing strollers sideways and reminding you that the corner owns you, not the other way around. Then there’s the mystery of scooters. No matter how cold it is — 2°C, wind chill below freezing — kids will insist on riding them. Gloves? Optional. Frozen fingers? Apparently not a problem. Parents jog behind, wondering why they brought the stroller at all.
through winter slush is an unspoken NYC art form. You learn quickly which crosswalks hide knee-deep puddles, how to angle the wheels for traction, and how to lift the whole thing with one heroic move when the slush gets too deep. And let’s talk about gloves. Somehow, every family in New York owns 11 gloves — never 12. Always missing the right one? No. It’s always the left one! Where do they go? Nobody knows. Possibly the same parallel universe that eats umbrellas. These oddities don’t make winter harder — they just make it uniquely, unmistakably New York. And honestly? We wouldn’t have it any other way.
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