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Warming shelters remain open across New York on Sunday as extreme cold and below freezing temperatures persist across the Tri-State area.

A 14th person has died from the cold weather in New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced late Saturday night. It's part of the reason why the mayor is opening another round of warming shelters, including warming buses.

Eyewitness News Reporter Chantee Lans has the latest from the Lower East Side. Click here to read the full story.

Chantee Lans has the latest on the deep freeze in New York City.

The record for consecutive days at or below freezing in Central Park is 16 days, set in 1961. Given the long-range pattern, we could be approaching that mark by mid-February.

The prolonged cold is due to a Greenland block, a weather pattern in which high pressure over Greenland disrupts the jet stream.

When temperatures spike well above normal in that part of the world, the atmosphere compensates by forcing Arctic air south - and that's exactly what's happening here.

This pattern looks locked in through at least mid-February.

Following a water main break overnight in the Morrisania section of the Bronx, DSNY crews, DEP workers and NYPD officers responded to the scene.

DSNY spread salt to prevent roads from icing over as water cascaded down city streets.

DSNY salted roads to prevent street icing.