Mark Lennihan/Associated Press Time to set up and get to work, beach-goers.It’s Tuesday morning. Time to go to work - on the beach.
About 100 young New Yorkers will start their city summer jobs cleaning up the shore and waterfront.
On Coney Island, the city will begin its program to educate people about how litter on city streets ends up as litter on the beach.
If you want to bring your office work to the beach, you can do that, too.
Starting Tuesday, solar charging units will pop up at beaches in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx â€" so you can remain just as tethered to your phone as ever.
Here’s what else you need to know to start your Tuesday.
WEATHER
Still hot, stickier than Monday, highs around 87. Decent chance of thunderstorms from mid-afternoon on, with significant rainfall possible. Bring the umbrella.
TRANSIT & TRAFFIC
- Roads: The ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge from the B.Q.E. is closed, 1010 WINS reports. Otherwise O.K. so far.
Alternate-side parking rules: in effect.
- Mass Transit: Delays on the G train. Click for the latest subway and bus status.
COMING UP TODAY
- Officials will release harmless, odorless gases in subway stations and on streets in Manhattan this morning to study how not-so-harmless gases would disperse in case of a terror attack.
- Mayor Bloomberg will sign a bill allowing newsstands to sell items for as much as $10, up from the current ceiling of $5, as long as they’re not “apparel, jewelry, hair ornaments, handbags or video cassettes.†When was the last time you bought a video cassette at a newsstand?
- On the campaign trail: Christine C. Quinn will be on “Morning Joe†on MSNBC at 7:15 a.m. William C. Thompson Jr. will greet subway commuters at 72nd Street and Broadway at 7:15 a.m. Sal Albanese will greet ferry riders in Rockaway and make the case for permanent ferry service from the peninsula to Manhattan.
- Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president who is running for city comptroller, will discuss a new report on hunger in the city and recommendations for the next mayor.
- The City Parks Foundation will kick off its free sports and arts programs for children in 60 parks across the city, including a circus workshop at a Columbus Park in Chinatown at 10:30 a.m.
- Gov. Cuomo’s new education reform commission will hold a public forum at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center at noon.
- Meet the birds in Bryant Park: a shelter for parrots, macaws and other exotic pets, Arcadia Bird Sanctuary and Educational Center, will bring its beautiful winged residents to the park from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Free concert in Bay Ridge: Head Over Heels, which bills itself as “Bay Ridge’s Party Band,†will play at Shore Road Park at 79th Street at 7 p.m.
- For more events, see The New York Times’s Arts & Entertainment guide.
E.C. Gogolak contributed reporting.
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