Peter Morgan/Associated Press Big Apple, the All-Star Game awaits you. And vice versa.For baseball fans, this is a big deal.
The All-Star Game will be played tonight at Citi Field, home of the Mets.
The Mets have not hosted the game since 1964, when their old stadium opened. And the Mets’ new star, Matt Harvey, will be the starting pitcher.
For the rest of New York, it means a “red carpet†parade of retired Mets stars and costumed mascots down 42nd Street that will set off a cascade of street closings.
Next door to Citi Field in Queens, there will be a protest by auto body-shop owners against their proposed eviction to make way for a big redevelopment project.
Matt Harvey may be a celebrity in the baseball world. But when he took to Manhattan and asked passersby what they thought about one Matt Harvey - well, the results were amusing. (Almost no one recognized him.)
It’s all captured in a video that Jimmy Fallon aired last night.
Here’s what else you need to know to start this steamy Tuesday.
WEATHER
The weather forecast, sadly, has not changed. It will be scorchingly hot, with a forecast high of 95, a degree hotter than Monday’s high of 94. No relief in sight till Saturday.
TRANSIT & TRAFFIC
- Roads [5:51] O.K. so far, 1010 WINS reports.
Alternate-side parking rules: in effect.
- Mass Transit [5:51] Subways are fine. Click for the latest status.
COMING UP TODAY
- On the mayoral campaign trail, Bill de Blasio does Curtis Sliwa’s morning show on AM 970, and wraps up the day at a rally to save a Brooklyn hospital. John A. Catsimatidis will speak at The Common Good’s candidate series.
- Jews and Muslims will join together at Beth Elohim, a synagogue in Park Slope, Brooklyn, to mark the observance of both Ramadan, the Muslim fasting holiday, and the end of Tisha B’Av, a Jewish fast day.
- Metropolitan Opera stars will perform “an enchanting evening of favorite opera arias and duets†at Central Park SummerStage at 8:00 pm. [Free]
- Find films, not cars, on the roof deck of Bronx Terminal Market’s parking garage. At sunset, it’s the first iteration of “Despicable Me.†[Free]
- Brace yourself, it’s hurricane season. Better yet, join volunteers packing disaster relief supplies this afternoon at the Food Bank for New York City, 355 Food Center Drive in The Bronx.
- Learn how to be a better urban gardener at Green Series: Urban Gardening Design Challenge on Pier 6 at Brooklyn Bridge Park at 7pm. (Your withered window sill plants will thank you.) [Free]
- For more events, see The New York Times’s Arts & Entertainment guide.
Michaelle Bond and Sarah Maslin Nir contributed reporting.We’re testing New York Today, which we put together just before dawn and update until noon.
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