It's cooler in the basement

For a hot day in New York, Mark Steyn tells where the air conditioners are - boxed up in the basement.
Can we open them please?
No.

I like the Education Department’s rationale:

The school has 18 classrooms. If the 10 units in storage are used, that would leave the children and teachers in the other 8 rooms uncomfortable on hot days.

Better a thousand kids fry than that a privileged few chill. As Alfred the Butler observed to Batman a movie or two back, “Some men just want to watch the world burn.”