Kevin Daley/National Park Service, via Associated Press Almost ready: the Statue of Liberty reopens on Thursday after being closed since 2011 first by a renovation project, then by Hurricane Sandy.It’s been a rough couple of years for the Statue of Liberty.
After being closed for a year for renovations, the statue reopened last October. The next day, Hurricane Sandy hit, damaging the ferry dock.
On Thursday, July 4, the statue will finally reopen.
But if you want to be among the huddled masses allowed inside, you’ll have to wait.
Tours are booked until next Wednesday, and the crown until August.
Still, you can make a trip to Liberty Island to gaze upon her in person, as so many would-be Americans have before you.
Here’s what else you need to know to start your Wednesday.
WEATHER
Cloudy and not too hot, with highs in the mid-80s. Then comes the sun, and with it the heat, with highs in the 90s by Friday and through the sunny weekend. Some chance of a shower Wednesday and Thursday.
TRANSIT & TRAFFIC
- Roads [6:01] Not bad so far, 1010 WINS repor! ts.
Alternate-side parking rules are in effect Wednesday, suspended Thursday and back in effect Friday.
- Mass Transit [6:01] Subways fine so far. Click for the latest status.
COMING UP TODAY
- Mayor Bloomberg will set his concerns about healthy eating slightly to the side as he presides over the weigh-in ceremony for Nathan’s annual hot-dog eating contest at 11 a.m.
- Holy hailing helicopters: starting today, you can summon a chopper via Uber to take you to the Hamptons. Just $3,000 for five seats.
- On the campaign trail, Bill de Blasio will criticize the Brooklyn-snubbing decision to hold the Macy’s fireworks over the Hudson River instead of the East River for the fifth year in a row. William C. Thompson Jr. will continue to rack up union endorsements, this one from the city’s traffic and sanitation enorcement agents.
- Former Merce Cunningham dancers will perform a site-specific work involving magic, latex, minotaurs and underwater trees on a rooftop garden in Dumbo, Brooklyn, at 1:30 p.m.
- “Our Nixon,†a documentary patched together from the president’s aides’ Super 8 home movies, will show for free at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens at 7 p.m.
- Fireworks at Co-op City in the Bronx at 8 p.m.
- An origami artist, Robert Lang, wil lecture on “The Mathematics of Origami, From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes†at the National Museum of Mathematics on East 26th Street at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.
- For more events, see The New York Times’s Arts & Entertainment guide.
E.C. Gogolak contributed reporting.
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