Ice is nice: NY sculptors turn blocks into bucks

Published June 22, 2012 7:26pm ET



DEER PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Dan Bergin has a cool job — a very cool job.

While temperatures this week flirted with 100 degrees, Bergin, the 29-year-old ice carving manager and head sculptor at Long Island-based Ice Sculpture Designs, spent most of his time bundled up in a parka and gloves in a 10-degree freezer. He was turning 300-pound blocks of ice into peacocks, company logos and other displays that will be the centerpieces of parties from Manhattan to the Hamptons.

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