"We like to think that tourists go to Times Square on New Year's Eve but real New Yorkers are the ones that show up at Coney Island on New Year's Day," Dennis Thomas, president of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club, told Brooklyn Paper ahead of the Jan. 1 swim.
The Coney Island Polar Bear Club - which boasts the distinction as the longest-running winter bathing club in the country - doubles the annual swim as a fundraiser to benefit local non-profits.
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