The state Department of Health listed cooling stations around the Capital Region on its website. The indoor Myers Middle School pool had been open for six minutes when a boy and his grandmother walked into the high-ceilinged room. Head above water, his hands slapped the surface, touching the far end of the pool wall before swimming back to the starting line. Later Friday, Lawitz, 20, planned to jog to Albany College of Pharmacy's artificial turf field to train for his upcoming soccer season. Near Albany Community Charter School, Jennifer Soto's stepson wanted to ditch the spigots of the water spray station for the metal merry-go-round. Nineteen-year-old Brendan Murphy drove a red Toro lawn mower in narrow laps on a grassy field near the Mater Christi parish. [...] they ventured to the ice-cream store to purchase scoops of espresso, raspberry, coffee, chocolate, some topped with Oreos and chips, some blended into a frappe. Friday afternoon, they did not dare to venture out to the picnic tables in the ice cream parlor's yard.