It’s the city that always sweats.

Temperatures yesterday hit 98 degrees, two degrees shy of the record 100 degrees set in 2010.

Sun lovers like Hector Jimenez of Brooklyn and his cousin Shaina Bodden of Staten Island (below) did their best to beat the heat at Coney Island.

“You have a choice: Come out to the beach or stay inside,” said a Coney Island visitor named Juanita from The Bronx. “If you don’t have A/C, this is what you do.”