Jabin Botsford/The New York Times You probably won’t need to seek relief from blistering heat on Thursday as this woman did last week on the roof of a hotel in the Meatpacking District.Do you remember a week ago?
When it was 99 degrees in Central Park, according to the National Weather Service?
On Thursday, revel in a high that is expected to be a comparatively bracing 77 degrees â€" significantly lower than the norm of 84.
A benevolent northeasterly wind is pushing air chilled by the Atlantic Ocean our way. Cloud cover will shield you from the sun.
There will be a chance of rain. Bring an umbrella.
It wont be too cool, unlike this day in 1871, where it only managed to get up to 62 degrees.
TRANSIT & TRAFFIC
- Roads: Traffic moving well Click for the latest status.
- Alternate side parking is in effect.
- Mass Transit:
Subways: Delays on the 4 train Click for the latest status.
COMING UP TODAY
- On the campaign trail, Anthony D. Weiner visits a Brooklyn soup kitchen. Joseph J. Lhota will be at the Lexington Avenue and 86th Street subway station at 7:45 a.m. Bill de Blasio will be at a concert at the Prospect Park Bandshell this evening. Bill Thompson will meet with paramedics and emergency personnel at noon on the Lower East Side.
- Tonight is the 4th annual Chelsea Art Walk. Studios will be open and artists will give talks in galleries throughout Chelsea from 5 to 8 p.m. [Free]
- Smokey Robinson performs in Coney Island at 7:30 p.m. [Free]
- Pop-up fitness class for children in Seward Park on the Lower East Side at 10 a.m. [Free]
- The Nigerian guitarist and songwriter Omara Moctar, who is known as Bombino, (click here for a review of his recent album) plays during your lunch break at the MetroTech Commons in Downtown Brooklyn at noon. [Free]
- BeBe Winans and Alicia Olatuja at the bandshell at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. 7:30 p.m. [Free]
- Groove at the “Motor City Revue: A Tribute to Motown†concert on Astoria Park Lawn in Queens. 7:30 p.m. [Free]
- Watch “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory†on the Harbor View Lawn in Brooklyn Bridge Park at sundown, no golden ticket necessary. [Free]
- The Metropolitan Opera continues its tour of the city. Tonight it’s at Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island at 7 p.m. [Free]
- The Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival will feature My Brightest Diamond, Emily Wells and the Kronos Quartet in Damrosch Park at 7:30 p.m. [Free]
IN THE NEWS
- Ronnell Wilson, who killed two undercover detectives (and fathered a child with a corrections officer while in prison), was sentenced to death for the second time by lethal injection by a federal jury. [New York Times]
- Shelter Island passes a law to keep skies dark at night. Outdoor lighting must be off at sundown. [Newsday]
- The New York City Council approves a $500 million expansion of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. [Fox News]
- The City Council gave Madison Square Garden an eviction notice. It has 10 years to find a new home. [New York Times]
- More M.T.A. fare hikes are on the way. [New York Daily News]
- A City Councilman was arrested during a protest against hospital closures. [New York Post]
- A shirtless man snuck into a secure area at JFK. [DNA Info]
- Who you gonna call? Goats, if poison ivy is your problem, according to one New Jersey town. [CBS]
AND FINALLY…
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn hosts, among others, the body of William Magear Tweed, a politician who before his death in 1878 stole the equivalent of more than a billion in today’s taxpayer dollars. You might know him as Boss Tweed.
For those interested in proverbially dancing on his grave (or near it), the cemetery now sponsors cocktail parties, like tonight’s “Drinks to Die For†and plays and other performances.
Michaelle Bond and Emily Gogolak and contributed reporting.
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