Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Today will provide New Yorkers with another opportunity to flaunt their summer fashion. (This was Wednesday in Madison Square Park.)Perhaps you were thinking that by mid-September you could put your air conditioners and tank tops in storage.
If so, you thought wrong.
Today shall be another hot one â€" not quite like yesterday, when the mercury hit 96 in Central Park, but still sunny and sticky, with temperatures creeping toward the upper 80s and a heat index around 90.
It may be September, but it is summer, after all.
With afternoon will come clouds, and probably rain, possibly a drenching. Behind it: cool, dry air through the weekend and into next week.
For today, though, pack an umbrella and matching sunglasses.
Here’s what else you need to know for Thursday.
TRANSIT & TRAFFIC
- Mass Transit: O.K. so far. Click for latest M.T.A. status.
- Roads: No major delays. Click for traffic map or radio report on the 1s.
Alternate-side parking is in effect.
COMING UP TODAY
- Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein provide the finale to Fashion Week.
- A cannoli-eating contest kicks off the Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy. 2 p.m. [Free]
- Joseph J. Lhota, Republican nomination in hand, visits the Queens gravesite of the Lubavitcher rabbi and reputed messiah Menachem Schneerson and appears on NY1’s “Road to City Hall†at 7 p.m.
- Want to raise a chicken? You can take a class at a community garden in Bedford-Stuyvesant. 5:30 p.m. [Free]
- The BEAT Festival (it stands for Brooklyn Emerging Artists in Theater) opens with a night of performances in all corners of the Brooklyn Museum. 7 p.m. [Free, R.S.V.P. and donation suggested]
- Fireworks above the East River off East 25th Street. 8:45 p.m.
IN THE NEWS
- Democratic power brokers are urging William C. Thompson Jr. to forsake a runoff should Bill de Blasio fall short of 40 percent after all the votes are counted. [New York Times]
- Some people want to make Sept. 11 a national holiday. [CBS2 New York]
- What if the city set aside a voting booth for one lone voter and he didn’t show up? It happened on West 58th Street. [DNA Info]
- Tina Brown is leaving publishing to start her own conference company. [New York Times]
- There will be no weekend L train service in much of East Williamsburg and Bushwick through mid-October. [Gothamist]
- David H. Petraeus, the retired general and former C.I.A. director, was greeted by hecklers en route to his first lecture as a visiting professor at City University of New York. [Daily News]
- Panic briefly gripped fans of Chipotle restaurants after a bad shipment of black beans prompted the chain to stop serving them in many New York locations. [Fox News New York]
- Yanks beat the Orioles 5-4 but Derek Jeter is out for the season. The Mets clinched a nonplayoff spot and lost to the Nationals 3-0.
Joseph Burgess contributed reporting.
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