New York is facing one of the fiercest winters ever recorded.
The temperatures are so low that on Friday the surface of the Hudson river was covered with blocks of ice.
Getty photographer Spencer Platt made the most of the occasion by snapping some amazing shots of the Big Apple covered with ice.
The west side of Manhattan was covered with ice on February, 20.

This is the view from the George Washington Bridge, connecting Manhattan, and New York, to New Jersey.

Platt was using a helicopter to take its shots. On February 20, the temperature in New York was recorded at 2 degrees Fahrenheit: that is -17° Celsius

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