Sculptors have designed the bedrooms, each with four-foot-thick snow walls and sheer ice windows.
In front is a walk-up ice cream window.
Outside, girls in bikinis lolled against the store's ice cream window — cheekily called "Unfriendly's" — licking melting cones.
Open daily from 8 30 a.m. to 9 p.m.. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, the ice cream window stays open as late as there are buyers.
And starting in about 10 days, Griff's, the ice cream window at the Duane Park restaurant, will start offering pops made of frozen pie fillings like Key lime and banana cream, coated with pie-crust crumbs.
In subsequent years, the ice-free window will widen, to 2-3 monthen then 4-5 months etc, and the trends suggest that within 20 years time we may have six ice-free months per year.
I hadn't seen this much snow since the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo -- where it snowed for more than four days, where my roommate in one of the high-rise apartments in the Press Village would lift the dreary shade in the morning and peer through the ice-crusted window.
And so Ms. Jones and others huddled in their cars all night on the expressway and its exit ramps, scanning the horizon, through ice-caked windows in hopes that plows would reach them.
Sam Sharma and his wife tried placing buckets of ice cubes on window sills and in front of fans in their apartment on the second floor of a house in Woodside, Queens.
This is the place to get high if you have scored at either the bodega counter or the ice cream truck window, places that the gallery's Web site describes as "classic" drug fronts.
