Founding Fathers Go Electric

Fireworks-phobic Americans have a new excuse for celebrating the Fourth of July indoors this year, thanks to a landmark project aimed at launching the words of the Founders into the digital ether, from sea to shining sea.

Founders Online, a collaboration between the National Archives and the University of Virginia Press, replicates the nearly 120,000 documents included in the 242 printed volumes of the papers of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin, presented to the public in easily searchable digitized form for the first time. Some 55,000 unpublished documents will be added in the next three years.

“This resource will be of immense value for the public to understand both the world and intentions of the founders,” Mark H. Saunders, interim director of the press, said of the online trove, which includes items like a somewhat clunky early draft of the Declaration of Independence beginning, “Whereas George . . . king of Great Britain . . . heretofore entrusted with the exercise of the kingly office in this government hath endeavored to pervert the same into a detestable and insupportable tyranny . . .”

Others praised the project as offering liberation from the tyranny of heavy bound tomes that scholars have groaned under since 1950, when Princeton University Press began publishing the modern documentary edition of Jefferson’s papers.

“This is huge,” David S. Ferriero, the archivist of the United States, told The Washington Post. “I can remember from my earliest days in the libraries at M.I.T. as a shelver, shelving those blessed volumes.”

Founding Fathers Go Electric

Fireworks-phobic Americans have a new excuse for celebrating the Fourth of July indoors this year, thanks to a landmark project aimed at launching the words of the Founders into the digital ether, from sea to shining sea.

Founders Online, a collaboration between the National Archives and the University of Virginia Press, replicates the nearly 120,000 documents included in the 242 printed volumes of the papers of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin, presented to the public in easily searchable digitized form for the first time. Some 55,000 unpublished documents will be added in the next three years.

“This resource will be of immense value for the public to understand both the world and intentions of the founders,” Mark H. Saunders, interim director of the press, said of the online trove, which includes items like a somewhat clunky early draft of the Declaration of Independence beginning, “Whereas George . . . king of Great Britain . . . heretofore entrusted with the exercise of the kingly office in this government hath endeavored to pervert the same into a detestable and insupportable tyranny . . .”

Others praised the project as offering liberation from the tyranny of heavy bound tomes that scholars have groaned under since 1950, when Princeton University Press began publishing the modern documentary edition of Jefferson’s papers.

“This is huge,” David S. Ferriero, the archivist of the United States, told The Washington Post. “I can remember from my earliest days in the libraries at M.I.T. as a shelver, shelving those blessed volumes.”

AstroTower’s Swaying Above Raises Doubts on Holiday Business Below

Jabin Botsford/The New York Times Concerns about the stability of the AstroTower kept other Coney Island attractions closed on Wednesday.

Nostalgia often comes in the form of a memory - real, faded or invented from lore.

On Coney Island, however, the past is ever-present. Whether it is the rumble of the Cyclone, the smell of Nathan’s hot dogs or the sight of Deno’s Wonder Wheel, for all that has changed, there are reminders of other storied periods there.

On Tuesday evening, one of those relics, the hulking 270-foot-high AstroTower, long dormant as a ride, managed to offer a bit of an unintended thrill as it swayedominously above the Boardwalk.

Nearby rides were closed as building inspectors worked to see if the structure was sound.

Throughout the day on Wednesday, much of Luna Park, including where the AstroTower and the Cyclone are, remained closed, as were the Wonder Wheel and the shops along the Boardwalk from West 10th Street to West 12th Street.

Officials from the New York City Buildings Department said that area of the park would remain closed Wednesday night but they were hopeful that it and surrounding buildings and attractions could reopen in time for Fourth of July festivities. A final decision will probably not be made until Thursday morning, they said.

The tower has been observed swaying up to 18 inches, officials said, adding that construction work to remove elevator equipment had been going on at the tower and may have contributed to the increased swaying.

“If anyone’s ever been in Coney Island, we all know that it moves,” said Robert LiMandri, the city’s b! uildings commissioner. “However, if you’ve been in Coney Island for a very long time, you know it’s moving more than normal.”

For hundreds of business owners, ride operators and merchants who rushed to be ready for the summer crush after suffering damage from Hurricane Sandy, there was concern that having the shops and rides closed on the holiday would be a tough blow.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg sought to reassure them that the city was doing all it could to resolve the situation.

“We want to make sure that Coney’s open to everybody, but safety is, obviously, everybody’s first priority,” he said on Wednesday at City Hall, where he was weighing in contestants for Nathan’s annual hot dog eating contest, which brings thousands of people to the Boardwalk each July 4.

Longtime Coney Island hands said spotting a little movement in the tower on windy days was not unusual, but city officials were taking no chances.

Many people went to Coney Island on Wednesday hoping o be whipped about on the Cyclone, only to be left staring up at the rusting tower that spoiled the fun.

Neil Furman, 77, and Judy Furman, 74, from Forest Hills, Queens, took their grandson, Luke Furman, 11, to the Boardwalk and were surprised to see police tape blocking the rides.

Told what was happening, they looked up at the AstroTower.

“Am I crazy or do I see it swaying?” Ms. Furman asked.

“I think it’s just the clouds moving,” Luke replied.

Coney Island has long marched to its own offbeat, sometimes freaky drummer. But this year, it is a place like so many others along the New York and New Jersey shoreline, hoping to make up for lost time and business after the fall hurricane.

Dennis Vourderis, whose family has run Deno’s Amusement Park for decades, said that they incurred $500,000 in uninsured damage from the storm.

Normally, the off-season is a time to relax, Mr. Vourderis said, but not this year. The last six months have been a sprint to g! et ready.!

“This summer is a special one,” he said. “Everyone is enthusiastic about making money and repaying bills.”

Deno’s Wonder Wheel, which he runs, did not spin on Wednesday, but he was confident that it would be running again soon.

The shutdown came just as people were starting to feel they had turned a corner in their recovery efforts. The Vourderis family has worked along the Boardwalk since starting as food merchants in 1966. The sound of screaming - the good, excited kind - has been a part of Dennis Vourderis’s Fourth for as long as he can remember, and he expects nothing less this year.

“Coney Island has never looked better,” he said.

Dick D. Zigun, the “unofficial mayor” of Coney Island and founder of Coney Island USA, an advocacy group, said “people thinking they are going to come to Coney Island and be heartbroken by seeing destruction are mistaken.”

From the new light display on the parachute jump to the restored B&B Carousell, he said, Cone Island is larger and more vibrant than it has been in years.

“There is more old Coney Island in the new Coney Island than people realize,” Mr. Zigun said.

The golden age of Coney Island is often thought of as taking place at the turn of the last century, when three amusement parks were operating along the Boardwalk. After the last of those parks - Steeplechase - closed in the 1960s, Astroland filled the void, opening in 1962. For years, even during the period of heightened crime and sagging family attendance, it managed to hold on.

Astroland’s AstroTower ride provided a stunning perch to take in the whole sweep of the Brooklyn shoreline.

After the tower was abandoned as an attraction five years ago, it was kept standing as a visible connection with the past.

In recent years, a plan emerged to install a light display similar to the one on the parachute jump, although the AstroTower’s stability has now cast that in doubt.

A Year’s Worth of Verse at Poets House

Cameron Blaylock Books on display as part of the 21st annual showcase at Poets House.

It’s something of a sport to say that poetry is dying, but nearly 3,000 books currently on display in Battery Park City offer a strong counterargument.

The 21st annual showcase at Poets House collects poetry books released in the past year by about 700 different publishers. On display through Aug. 3, the books will eventually move upstairs to be absorbed into the organization’s library of more than 50,000 titles.

The public is free to browse through the books in the showcase, including the latest collections by John Ashbery and Adrienne ich; “Troubling the Line,” an anthology of work by transgender poets; the nearly 1,000 pages of “The Collected Poems of James Dickey”; and the splendidly titled “I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary,” a collection of notebooks, diaries and letters by the avant-garde Russian poet Daniil Kharms, who died in 1942.

The exhibit’s unique charms are found in the handmade books peppered throughout the shelves. “Very Different Animals,” by Frank Sherlock, is a poem printed on an accordion-style foldout and tucked into the back of a small painting by the artist Nicole Donnelly. Books published by vanity presses aren’t included in the showcase, but self-published titles are fair game. Those include Don Moyer’s box set of collected work. Gina Scalise, a librarian at Poets House who organized the show, flipped through one of Mr. Moyer’s lavishly! illustrated books during my visit. “It’s a labor of love,” she said. “A lot of stuff here is.”

More Changes at Granta

The recent announcement that Ted Hodgkinson, the online editor for the literary magazine Granta, would be leaving his position revived the chatter surrounding the London-based quarterly, which has lost seven staff members since its top editor, John Freeman, announced in April that he would be stepping down.

But shortly after Mr. Hodgkinson posted his news on Twitter, Sigrid Rausing, the magazine’s owner, who has been reported as clashing with Mr. Freeman over cutbacks, issued a statement aimed at quelling the speculation.

In a brief article called “Moving On,” posted on the Web site of the British magazine The Bookseller, Ms. Rausing, a billionaire philanthropist who bought Granta in 2005, outlined her plans for the magazine, referring to a statementshe made several years ago decrying “excessive commerciality” in publishing.

“I haven’t changed my mind about that, but equally we had to address our losses, and build a leaner structure,” she said. A new editor in chief, she added, would eventually take on Mr. Freeman’s responsibilities while also supervising Granta’s book publishing division, a post recently vacated by Philip Gwyn Jones, who will be joining Granta’s newly created editorial board.

“The literary focus, and the acquisitions budget, will remain the same,” she noted, before praising Mr. Freeman’s role in expanding the magazine’s roster of foreign-language editions to 12.

“It’s a big shake-up,” Ms. Rausing, who currently holds the title of acting editor! , said of the recent staff departures. “Some of it was planned and some of it wasn’t, but the unexpected changes at the magazine have given me the opportunity to rethink the roles within the company.”

More Changes at Granta

The recent announcement that Ted Hodgkinson, the online editor for the literary magazine Granta, would be leaving his position revived the chatter surrounding the London-based quarterly, which has lost seven staff members since its top editor, John Freeman, announced in April that he would be stepping down.

But shortly after Mr. Hodgkinson posted his news on Twitter, Sigrid Rausing, the magazine’s owner, who has been reported as clashing with Mr. Freeman over cutbacks, issued a statement aimed at quelling the speculation.

In a brief article called “Moving On,” posted on the Web site of the British magazine The Bookseller, Ms. Rausing, a billionaire philanthropist who bought Granta in 2005, outlined her plans for the magazine, referring to a statementshe made several years ago decrying “excessive commerciality” in publishing.

“I haven’t changed my mind about that, but equally we had to address our losses, and build a leaner structure,” she said. A new editor in chief, she added, would eventually take on Mr. Freeman’s responsibilities while also supervising Granta’s book publishing division, a post recently vacated by Philip Gwyn Jones, who will be joining Granta’s newly created editorial board.

“The literary focus, and the acquisitions budget, will remain the same,” she noted, before praising Mr. Freeman’s role in expanding the magazine’s roster of foreign-language editions to 12.

“It’s a big shake-up,” Ms. Rausing, who currently holds the title of acting editor! , said of the recent staff departures. “Some of it was planned and some of it wasn’t, but the unexpected changes at the magazine have given me the opportunity to rethink the roles within the company.”

‘Yeezus’ Falls Sharply as Wale’s ‘Gifted’ Hits No. 1

Is Kanye West’s latest album a hit? It’s certainly being talked about everywhere; even Lou Reed weighed in on the record, “Yeezus” (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam), calling it “majestic and inspiring.” But so far its sales are far from blockbuster.

“Yeezus” had a softer than expected opening week, and now in the album’s second week out its sales have fallen precipitously. “Yeezus” sold 65,000 copies last week in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan â€" a drop of 80 percent from the 327,000 it enjoyed at its opening, sending the album down two spots on Billboard’s chart to No. 3. In percentage terms, its second-week plunge is the greatest since Madonna’s “MDNA,” which in April 2012 had a historic drop of 87 percent.

But the pattern isn’t much different from what Mr. West has experienced in the past. His last album, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” in 2011, opened at No. 1 â€" with 496,000 sales â€" and in its second week out fell 78 percent, as Billboard noted. At the moment, “Yeezus” is the top streaming album on Spotify. Maybe it will play the long game.

Rap dominates the top spots on the chart for a second week in a row. Wale’s latest album, “The Gifted” (Maybach Music Group/Atlantic), opens at No. 1 with 158,000 sales, and J. Cole’s “Born Sinner” (Roc Nation/Columbia) holds at No. 2 for a second week with 84,000 (down 72 percent). The Christian rock band Skillet bows at No. 4 with just less than 60,000 sales of its new album, “Rise” (Atlantic/Word), while Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories” (Daft Life/Columbia) is No. 5 with 31,000 sales in its sixth week out.

On Billboardâ€! ™s Hot 100 singles chart, Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” holds at No. 1 for a fourth week, with 423,000 downloads and 5.4 million streams in the United States on services like Spotify and YouTube.

It’s Weinstein vs. Warner Brothers Over Use of the Title ‘The Butler’

LOS ANGELES â€"Never ones to avoid controversy, especially when it comes to selling a movie, Harvey Weinstein and the Weinstein Company now have an attention-getting fight over Lee Daniels’s coming film “The Butler” on their hands. Warner Brothers had objected to the title, citing rights to a similarly titled short from 1916, and won in industry arbitration this week. Now Weinsteinâ€" according to a flurry of press reports, including those on the Deadline.com site â€" has asked its lawyer David Boies to appeal or take further legal action.

A Warner spokesman declined to comment, and queries to Weinstein and Mr. Boies drew no response. The film is set to open on Aug. 16.

Mr. Weinstein and his various companies have previously become embroiled in well-publicized controversies surrounding the release of a number of films, inluding “Priest,” “Kids,” “Fahrenheit 9/11,” “Shut Up and Sing,” “Bully,” “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” “Sicko,” “The Tillman Story,” “Blue Valentine” and “Silver Linings Playbook.”

Bigger on the Inside: A Royal Visit to the Set of ‘Doctor Who’

Simon Ridgway/BBC America Prince Charles, right, and his wife, Camilla, with the actors Matt Smith and Jenna Coleman on the set of “Doctor Who.”

One of Britain’s most enduring characters and his faithful companion got to meet their second most-famous equivalents â€" you can decide who is who â€" when Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, visited the actors Matt Smith and Jenna Coleman on the set of the BBC science-fiction adventure series “Doctor Who” on Wednesday.

BBC America, which broadcasts “Doctor Who” in the United States, said in a news release that Prince Charles and Camilla traveled to the Roath Lock studis in Cardiff Bay, where the show is filmed, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. Their Royal Highnesses were shown costumes and graphic displays and given instructions on how to fly the Tardis, the time-and-space-navigation vehicle used by the Doctor on his adventures, and Prince Charles used a voice-modulating device to simulate the sound of a nefarious alien Dalek. (It was not immediately clear how Prince Charles’s repeated intonations of the Dalek catch phrase “Exterminate!” were interpreted by his subjects.)

Mr. Smith, who plays the 11th incarnation of the Doctor, said in a statement that Prince Charles “said he remembers watching the show when he was 15 and seemed very knowledgeable on the ‘Who’ history, so it’s nice to think” he and Camilla are watching. Ms. Coleman, who plays his companion Clara Oswald, added that Prince Charles “was particularly interested in the mechanics of ! how the Tardis works and the storyline for the upcoming 50th anniversary special, but I didn’t give too many secrets away.”

Steven Moffat, the producer and lead writer of “Doctor Who,” said that Prince Charles’s “attempt at being a Dalek was great,” adding: “There would be a part in the show for him if he wanted it.” Given that Mr. Smith has recently announced his plans to leave “Doctor Who” at the end of the year, that part could be available sooner rather than later.

Wrist Injury Sidelines Marin Alsop

Marin Alsop, the music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, has canceled her conducting schedule for July because of a wrist injury, Baltimore Symphony officials said Wednesday. Ms. Alsop, 56, apparently sprained her right wrist in an accident Monday night in her hotel in São Paulo.

“She just slipped in her bathroom in her hotel,” Simon Millward, Ms. Alsop’s publicist, said in a telephone interview from London. “She’s had an MRI and all is fine. She’s flying back to the States and will see a specialist. At the moment, the indications are she’s sprained it and she needs to rest for the month. It’s just being sensible and cautious.”

Ms. Alsop was to conduct the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra on July 4 through 7. She was also to conduct July 8-14 at the Campos de Jordão Festival in São Paulo. Her next appearance with the Baltimore Symphony is schedled for Sept. 20.

In 2007 she became the first woman to be named the music director of a major American orchestra, following her appointment in 2005.

Wrist Injury Sidelines Marin Alsop

Marin Alsop, the music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, has canceled her conducting schedule for July because of a wrist injury, Baltimore Symphony officials said Wednesday. Ms. Alsop, 56, apparently sprained her right wrist in an accident Monday night in her hotel in São Paulo.

“She just slipped in her bathroom in her hotel,” Simon Millward, Ms. Alsop’s publicist, said in a telephone interview from London. “She’s had an MRI and all is fine. She’s flying back to the States and will see a specialist. At the moment, the indications are she’s sprained it and she needs to rest for the month. It’s just being sensible and cautious.”

Ms. Alsop was to conduct the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra on July 4 through 7. She was also to conduct July 8-14 at the Campos de Jordão Festival in São Paulo. Her next appearance with the Baltimore Symphony is schedled for Sept. 20.

In 2007 she became the first woman to be named the music director of a major American orchestra, following her appointment in 2005.

Death of Cirque du Soleil Performer Was Accidental, Officials Say

Associated Press A photograph of the Cirque du Soleil performer Sarah Guillot-Guyard, who was killed in an accident at a performance.

The death of a Cirque du Soleil performer at a show in Las Vegas has been ruled an accident, the local authorities said.

The Clark County Office of Coroner/Medical Examiner said in a statement that the performer, Sarah Guillot-Guyard, died on Saturday night “from multiple blunt force trauma suffered when she fell approximately 90 feet.”

Tat distance was considerably more than initially reported by witnesses at the performance of the Cirque du Soleil show “Ka,” which is presented at the MGM Grand hotel. They said that they saw Ms. Guillot-Guyard fall about 50 feet during the show’s closing number, into a pit that audience members could not see.

Ms. Guillot-Guyard, 31, was a citizen of France and a resident of Las Vegas. She had trained as an acrobat for 22 years and had two children. Other reports gave her name as Sarah Guyard-Guillot.

After the announcement of her death, Guy Laliberté, the founder of Cirque du Soleil, said in a statement that he was “heartbroken,” adding that she was “an artist with the original cast of ‘Ka’ since 2006 and has been an integral part of our Cirque du Soleil tight family.” Performances of “Ka” have been suspended since the accident.

Clark County officials said in their statement that Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration was investigating the! accident, an inquiry which could take up to six months to complete.

July 3: Where the Candidates Are Today

Planned events for the mayoral candidates, according to the campaigns and organizations they are affiliated with. Times are listed as scheduled but frequently change.

Joseph Burgess and Nicholas Wells contributed reporting.

Event information is listed as provided at the time of publication. Details for many of Ms. Quinn events are not released for publication.

Events by candidate

Carrión

De Blasio

Thompson

Group event

Bill de Blasio
Democrat

11 a.m.
Joins State Senator Daniel Squadron at a news conference calling for the return of the Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks show to the Brooklyn-Queens waterfront, afte! r five consecutive years of having the display emanating from the Hudson River side nearer to New Jersey, at Brooklyn Bridge Park.

4 p.m.
Continues gathering signatures for his petition to get on the ballot, with the Barack Obama Democratic Club and Marisol Alcantara, a district leader, in Harlem.

5:45 p.m.
Greets afternoon commuters, at the 96th Street subway station on Broadway.

William C. Thompson Jr.
Democrat

2 p.m.
Accepts the endorsement of the New York City Uniform Traffic and Sanitation Enforcement Agents, outside City Hall.

8 p.m.
Watches Independence Day fireworks, from the Co-op City Little League field.

Anthony D. Weiner
Democrat

12:30 p.m.
Continues his “Keys to the City” tour, with a news conference outlining his plan to lessen state control over the city,! outside ! City Hall.

Adolfo Carrión Jr.
Independent

8 a.m.
Greets morning commuters at the No. 7 train station on Elmhurst Avenue in Queens.

9 a.m.
Campaigns along Roosevelt Avenue, near 90th Street, in Queens.

Extinct TV Shows from 1980s and ’90s Find New Life in Comic Books

Fans of canceled television shows from the 1980s and 1990s will soon have new material to comfort them. NBCUniversal is partnering with Lion Forge Comics, a digital publisher, to develop comics for several series of yore. The first wave of announced comics are “Airwolf,” which ran from 1984 to 1987, “Knight Rider” (1982-1986), “Miami Vice” (1984-1989), “Punky Brewster” (1984-86) and “Saved by the Bell” (1989-1993).

“Airwolf,” which will be available in September, will be the first of the series released. This year, each series will have an eight-issue season. Next year, each series will have two eight-issue seasons. Lion Forge will have a panel featuring preview art and discussing other series in development at Comic-Con International in San Diego, which runs July 18-21.

Scalping Tickets for a Joan Baez Show

Dear Diary:

My husband and I went to Joan Baez’s concert in Central Park on June 17. We had a preconcert picnic on a bench along the footpath leading to the SummerStage. Across from us sat two older gentlemen, not initially identifiable as part of the “secondary ticket market” work force, but it soon became evident they were.

“Who needs tickets? Joan Baez tickets here,” they mumbled to each and every person who strolled by.

It seemed they had misjudged the potential market - Ms. Baez’s fans apparently were not the type to show up “hoping to score a ticket,” and the ticketless seemed intent on enjoying the concert sitting on the (free) lawn surrounding the open-air venue.

After 40 minutes without a single interested customer, and clearly frustrated, Gentleman No. 1 said to Gentleman No. 2, “Now I see why Dylan dumped her!”

But, as evidenced later that night, it seems she is doing just fine without him!

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New York Today: She’s Back

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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