A cold place on a hot night

I was driving home from work the other night at 11:45pm along a side street in Newark, NJ. I had the windows rolled down because it was 94 degrees but I'm afraid to use the A/C in my car. I stopped at a red light in a quiet part of town, and saw two women leaning against the trunk of a car on the opposite corner. I thought to myself, "Those two are out here to escape the heat - two friends." Then the light changed, and as I accelerated through the intersection one of the women looked up at me through my open car window, and stared into my eyes, asking. It dawned on me that they weren't escaping the heat, but they were in a place as cold as it gets.