While many New Yorkers celebrated New Year's Day morning with brunches and various hangover remedies, a group of daring individuals from the Coney Island Polar Bear Club went for an annual, icy swim to ring in 2012.
The nation's oldest winter bathing organization takes a dip into the Atlantic Ocean every Sunday from November to April, but no membership was required for the special New Year's Day event.
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