Peter Morgan/Associated Press Big Apple, the All-Star Game awaits you. And vice versa.Updated, 12:23 p.m. | The All-Star Game will be played tonight at Citi Field, home of the Mets.
For baseball fans, this is a big deal. The Mets have not hosted the game since 1964. Their ace, Matt Harvey, will be the starting pitcher.
For the rest of New York, it means a parade of retired ballplayers and costumed mascots down 42nd Street that will set off a cascade of street closings.
Next door to Citi Field in Queens, auto body-shop owners will protest their proposed eviction to make way for redevelopment.
Harvey may be a baseball celebrity. But when he asked New Yorkers what they thought about one Matt Harvey, the results were amusing. (Almost no one recognized him.)
It's all captured in a video that Jimmy Fallon showed Monday 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 until Saturday. City cooling centers are open, and some pools in Nassau County are staying open till 8 p.m.
TRANSIT & TRAFFIC
- Roads Alternate-side parking rules in effect.
- Mass Transit Click for the latest M.T.A. status.
COMING UP TODAY
- On the campaign trail, Anthony D. Weiner unveils a plan to save mom-and-pop pharmacies. John A. Catsimatidis will speak at The Common Good's candidate series. Scott M. Stringer, trailing Eliot Spitzer by 15 points in a new poll, is live on MSNBC at noon.
- 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.
- Van Holmes, who ran a Queens nonprofit group tied to former State Senator Shirley Huntley, will be arrested on charges that he stole $88,000 in government funds, The New York Post reports.
- Metropolitan Opera stars will sing arias and duets at Central Park SummerStage, off Fifth Avenue and 72nd Street, at 8 p.m. [Free]
-The New York Philharmonic plays Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx at 8 p.m. [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]
- Bars and restaurants along Stone Street in the Financial District are hosting a street party tonight to raise money for Self Help Africa, a nonprofit that works to improve the continent's agricultural economy.
- 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.
- For more events, see The New York Times's Arts & Entertainment guide.
IN THE NEWS
- A poll shows Anthony D. Weiner and Christine C. Quinn leading the pack among Democratic candidates for mayor. [New York Times]
- Two teenagers who stole a motorized wheelchair from a man with cerebral palsy and joy-rode it through Roslyn on Long Island had their day in court. [CBS2 New York]
- CUNY had planned to pay David Petraeus, the former C.I.A. director, $200,000 a year to be an adjunct professor. Now, after a backlash, he is going to earn $1. [New York Times]
- Thieves stole an entire ATM from a diner in Queens. It contained $9,000. [Daily News]
- An 89-year-old Staten Island woman's hurricane-damaged home had just been repaired. Then burglars broke in and set fire to it. [Staten Island Advance]
- Metta World Peace, the basketball player formerly known as Ron Artest, returns to the Knicks. [New York Times]
- After months of labor (by humans), Komodo dragons have a gorgeous new home at the Bronx Zoo. [New York Times]
AND FINALLY…
This week in New York rock history: in 1967, a very loud quartet from Long Island called Vanilla Fudge had the No. 70 hit with an oozing, plodding deconstruction of the Supremes' “You Keep Me Hanging On.â€
Makes a nice soundtrack for a turgid summer day.
Michaelle Bond and Sarah Maslin Nir contributed reporting.
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