A little after nine o'clock the crowd has gathered, cold-faced and giddy, before the stage, and the night seems charged with all the thrill of a Christmas carol concert.
When the customers are on the train, he has time to gather the cold cash and prepare for the next rush.
Every Sunday night in central Kampala, the capital, at a steamy nightclub down the street from a school and behind some sooty palm trees, dozens of gay men, lesbians and transgender people gather for cold beer and bad lip-syncing.
Last July I was privileged to be in Aspen, Colo., where 10,000-square-foot luxury log cabins aspire to the soaring Rockies, billionaires tool Priuses to private jets and the world's powerful gather for cold salmon and big truths.
On a big screen that opened the event, the words "Welcome to the Dark, Embrace the Cold" reminded the gathered crowd of Finland's long winter nights and temperatures that can fall well below zero.
"A rolling Cold Stone gathers no moss, cold or otherwise," Hoover's Inc., a Texas-based company that provides corporate profiles, noted in a report on the chain.
Stressed, they probably gathered around the cold spring seepage at the bottom of the pond.
In Independence Square, there was no immediate reaction from the relatively small crowd gathered in bitter cold near midnight.
Crowds chanting "Murderers!" gathered in a cold rain outside the courthouse in Albany, and outside the Bronx building where Mr. Diallo was slain in a hail of 41 bullets.
ohn White is a hero," Frederick Brewington said two weeks later, addressing a crowd of several hundred people, almost all of them black, who had gathered on a cold Saturday afternoon in front of the criminal-court building in Riverhead.
And so it was that a crowd of about 50 people wrapped in scarves and bandannas against the cold gathered Monday morning outside a Starbucks at the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 33rd Street.
