Michael Appleton for The New York Times Anthony D. Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, at a news conference where he admitted engaging in sexually explicit online exchanges after he resigned from Congress. Mayoral candidates are scheduling various events for Wednesday, but it looks as if all anyone will want to discuss are new revelations about Anthony D. Weiner's raunchy online conversations.
Bill de Blasio is speaking at a Bronx forum. William C. Thompson Jr. is campaigning at subway stops in Harlem.
The day, though, will most likely be dominated by fallout from Mr. Weiner's news conference on Tuesday, where he and his wife, Huma Abedin, acknowledged that he had continued to have sexually explicit conversations with women he met online after he resigned from Congress.
Already, some of his rivals have demanded that he drop out of the race.
What to watch for: Will other candidates, including one of the front-runners, Christine C. Quinn, join that call on Wednesday? Or will they sidestep questions about Mr. Weiner and see how the public reacts?
The editorial pages of The New York Times and The Daily News said he should abandon the race. The New York Post was also harshly critical.
And where is the candidate at the center of it all? Mr. Weiner is testifying at a hearing on public housing in Manhattan and speaking at a mayoral forum in the Bronx.
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COMING UP TODAY
- An anatomical specimen made of an actual human and a horse â€" preserved with plastic polymer â€" from the exhibit “Body Worlds,†will be on display in Times Square for just one day. [Free]
- People dressed in black will walk across the Brooklyn Bridge at 4 p.m. as part of a “funeral march†protesting potential hospital closings in Brooklyn.
- Dancers splash through the fountain and cavort in the courtyard outside Lincoln Center at 6 p.m. [Free]
- Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City hosts an outdoor screening of “In Another Country,†by the South Korean director Hong Sang-soo at 7 p.m. [Free]
- Watch “Argo†on Pier 63 in Hudson River Park. 8:30 p.m. [Free]
- Admission is free on Wednesday at the Bronx Zoo. Take a peek at the future home of the Komodos.
- There's a family capoeira class this evening in Inwood Hill Park from 6:30 to 7:30. [Free]
- Subway musicians perform at the third annual N.Y.C. Busker Ball at Spike Hill in Williamsburg at 7 p.m. [Free]
IN THE NEWS
- Keron Thomas, who took an A train on a joy ride as a teenager, has died. He was 37. [PIX 11]
- A Queens woman threw out a fridge, forgetting she had stashed $5,000 in it. She got the money back. [New York Daily News]
- More than 1,000 Citi Bike users had their personal information exposed because of a glitch. [Gothamist]
- An apartment fire in Hamilton Heights displaced 150 people. It was sparked by an air-conditioner, officials said. [DNA Info]
- Some people wait years for an apartment in public housing, while others jump the line. [New York Times]
- It's been nine months since Hurricane Sandy, and the storks are working overtime. [CBS]
- A tenant turned a rent-stabilized NoLIta apartment into a bed-and-breakfast, a landlord says. [PIX 11]
AND FINALLY…
A repatriation ceremony will be held on Wednesday at the United States Attorney's office in Manhattan â€" for two antique books. They are being returned to the National Library of Sweden, rediscovered after purportedly being stolen by Anders Burius, a senior librarian there. He committed suicide shortly after his arrest in 2004. The books contain early depictions of America's interior, including Mississippi, by explorers.
Michaelle Bond and Michael Barbaro contributed reporting.
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This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: July 24, 2013
An earlier version of this post misstated the location of a screening of "Argo" in Hudson River Park. It is at Pier 63, not Pier 36.
