Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times Parasols may turn to umbrellas before the day is through.We made it.
It was 97 degrees on Friday. The city set a new record for electricity use trying to keep cool. The breeze was the temperature of a human body.
It was awful. It is over.
We are pleased to say that today the highs will be in mid 80s, with lows in the low 70s tonight. You can expect rain and thunderstorms. You should bring an umbrella. And you might even turn off your air conditioner.
TRANSIT & TRAFFIC
- Mass Transit: Normal morning service will resume on MetroNorth’s Hudson Line today, following last week’s freight train derailment. The M.T.A. has put out a surprisingly fascinating video of the repairs.
Subways are O.K. Click for the latest M.T.A. status.
Roads: Traffic moving well. Click for updates at CBS New York.
Alternate-side parking rules: in effect.
COMING UP TODAY
- Three major women’s groups announce their endorsement of Scott M. Stringer for comptroller. In the mayor’s race, Bill de Blasio chats with voters outside of Trader Joe’s in Chelsea and Anthony D. Weiner visits a senior center in the Bronx. William C. Thompson Jr. will call for government incentives to tech start ups while visiting one. Joseph J. Lhota is at Mount Loretto Friendship Club, a Staten Island senior center.
- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Governor Andrew M. Cuomo will compete in a whitewater rafting race upstate to promote tourism in the Adirondacks. They may not be evenly matched.
- The Martha Graham Dance Company performs at SummerStage in Central Park. 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. [Free]
- Column McCann reads from his new novel “TransAtlantic†in Brooklyn Bridge Park at 7 p.m. [Free]
- There is an open air screening of the 1951 Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn classic “The African Queen†in Bryant Park. Sunset. [Free]
- It’s “Old School Night†at the the Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series with a gaggle of rappers in Wingate Field, Brooklyn at 7:30p.m. [Free]
- And an old school Reno, Nevada, showgirl masquerades as a singing nun in “Sister Act,†screening in Jamaica, Queen’s Frederick Cabbell Park at 8:27 p.m. [Free]
- For more events, see The New York Times’s Arts & Entertainment guide.
IN THE NEWS
- Yankees lost against the Red Sox, 7 to 8. And Alex Rodriguez’s return is delayed.
AND FINALLY…
On this day in 1869, the civil engineer John Augustus Roebling died. His final glory â€" the Brooklyn Bridge â€" was not yet complete. It would not open until 1883.
(Also, the lost chicken found in Prospect Park and written about here last week has a new home. In Bushwick.)
Nicole DeSmet and E.C. Gogolak contributed reporting.
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