New York Today: Beach (Work) Day

Mark Lennihan/Associated Press Time to set up and get to work, beachgoers.

Updated, 12:14 p.m. | It's Tuesday. Time to go to work â€" 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 boardwalk, 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, with highs around 87. A decent chance of thunderstorms from midafternoon on, with significant rainfall possible. Bring the umbrella.

TRANSIT & TRAFFIC

- Roads: Alternate-side parking rules are in effect all week.

- Mass Transit: 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 on Tuesday morning to study how not-so-harmless gases would disperse in a terror attack.

- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will sign a bill allowing newsstands to sell items for as much as $10, up from the current $5, as long as they are not “apparel, jewelry, hair ornaments, handbags or video cassettes.” (When was the last time you bought a videocassette at a newsstand?)

- On the campaign trail, Christine C. Quinn will announce that she's being endorsed by four City Council members.

- Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president who is running for city comptroller against a certain late entrant, will discuss a new report on hunger in the city.

- The City Parks Foundation will kick off its free sports and arts programs for children in 60 parks, including a circus workshop at Columbus Park in Chinatown at 10:30 a.m.

- Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's new education reform commission will hold a public forum at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center at noon.

- A shelter for parrots, macaws and other exotic birds will give people a chance to meet its beautiful winged residents at Bryant 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.

IN THE NEWS

- Eliot Spitzer: the Sequel earned scathing reviews on just about every editorial page in town. (Post, Daily News, Journal, Times). The Post opined, “a taste for call girls may be the least of the ethical lapses of Eliot Spitzer.”

- A woman was stabbed several times in the subway at Lexington Avenue and 59th Street by a homeless woman in an attack that began as a staredown between strangers, the police said. [New York Times]

- An extremely small deer called a pudu was born at the Queens Zoo. It will be extremely small even when it grows up. [Gothamist]

- Is it really possible to be electrocuted by the act of urinating on the third rail, as some media outlets (but not most others) say happened to a man in Brooklyn on Monday? The Atlantic Wire investigated.

- Mariah Carey fell and dislocated her shoulder filming a video at a pizzeria in Chelsea. [New York Post]

- A very cold bar where pretty much everything, including the glasses, is made of ice opened in the Hilton in Midtown. [Associated Press]

- Mets beat Giants in 16, Yanks lose.

AND FINALLY…

David Letterman on Eliot Spitzer: “Comptroller? This guy couldn't even comptrol himself.” [via @grynbaum ]

E.C. Gogolak contributed reporting.

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This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: July 10, 2013

An earlier version of this post misidentified the candidate who was being endorsed by four City Council members. It was Christine C. Quinn, not William C. Thompson Jr.