Weather: Hot, hot, hot. Read on for more details.
Alternate-side parking: In effect until Aug. 11.
You are about to experience the hottest days of the year.
How hot is it going to be this weekend?
It may feel north of 100 degrees. One meteorologist called the heat “dangerous.” It’s going to be so hot that Mayor de Blasio canceled his presidential campaign events to stay in the city.
Here’s what else you need to know:
How hot will it be?
Today, the temperature was expected to be near 91 degrees. It may feel more like 101, according to the National Weather Service.
Tomorrow, the high could exceed 97 degrees, and it may feel like 111.
Sunday’s high may surpass 95 degrees, and it could feel like 107. Rain and thundershowers might pop up that evening.
[What is the heat index? Is it the heat, the humidity, or both?]
A heat wave is defined as three consecutive days of temperatures that reach or exceed 90 degrees.
By Monday, the heat is expected to break.
Is this heat wave a big deal?
Yes.
“This is going to be the hottest stretch of weather we’ve had so far this summer,” Jay Engle, a meteorologist at the Weather Service, said. He called the heat wave “dangerous.”
Jaime Madrigano, a public health policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, went further, warning in an interview that “people die every year from heat waves.”
In a statement, organizers said, “We are unable to provide either a safe event experience or an alternate race weekend.”
To stay cool, should I take cold showers?
It’s better to take frequent showers with tepid or lukewarm water, according to the city’s health commissioner, Dr. Oxiris Barbot.
“Taking cold showers is more of a shock to the system than taking frequent tepid showers,” Dr. Barbot said at a news conference this week. “It just gives the body more time to acclimate to the temperature differences.”
What is it supposed to feel like in July?
The normal high temperature for July 19 and July 20 is 84 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
The hottest temperature ever recorded on July 19 was in 1977, when it hit 102 degrees. The hottest temperature ever recorded on July 20 was in 1980, when it was 101. The hottest temperature ever recorded on July 21 was also in 1977, when it hit 104.
From The Times
New charges are unlikely in the Stormy Daniels hush-money investigation that ensnared members of President Trump’s inner circle, federal prosecutors signaled.
Upside Pizza in Manhattan will get a smaller sibling in Brooklyn.
El Chapo has disappeared. (Is he at the Supermax?)
[Want more news from New York and around the region? Check out our full coverage.]
The Mini Crossword: Here is today’s puzzle.
What we’re reading
There are too many parking spaces in New York, the City Council speaker, Corey Johnson, said. [New York Post]
Two retired city firefighters died this week from illnesses related to their work at ground zero. [amNew York]
Some bus routes in the Bronx may change, and residents are concerned. [Norwood News]
A video shows a man who was nearly swept off a subway platform by water that broke through a plywood construction wall. [Curbed, via Subway Creatures]
Coming up this weekend
Friday:
Enjoy popcorn and a balmy summer night during a screening of “Boyz N the Hood” at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. 6:30 p.m. [Free]
Travel to the 1750s with Hogarth’s Gin Craze Festival — featuring gin-inspired food and drink, gallery talks and a film screening — at the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan. 6 p.m. [Free]
Saturday:
Bust a move at Papi Juice’s summer barbecue, with food by Sol Sips, surprise D.J. sets and vendors, at Elsewhere in Brooklyn. 2 p.m. [Free with R.S.V.P., $10 at the door]
Watch Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn. 12 p.m. [$8]
Sunday:
From exhibit tours and photo workshops to food and sporting events, enjoy the Latin American Foto Festival at the Bronx Documentary Center. 1 p.m. [Free]
Get a laugh at the Persons With Disabilities Comedy Showcase, with the theme “Sex, Love & Thirst Traps,” featuring five intersectional comedians, at Q.E.D. in Queens. 7 p.m. [$15]
— Melissa Guerrero and Jacob Meschke
Events are subject to change, so double-check before heading out. For more events, see the going-out guides from The Times’s culture pages.
And finally: The moon landing anniversary
The Times’s Melissa Guerrero writes:
Something mo(on)mentous is coming up.
Tomorrow marks 50 years since man first walked and left bootprints on the moon. The media spectacle attracted more than 600 million viewers across the world.
New Yorkers — at bars, in appliance stores, on the street — couldn’t keep their eyes and ears away from television and radio broadcasts of the Apollo 11 mission.
[Read all The Times’s reporting on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.]
At screenings tomorrow and Sunday at the Paley Center for Media in Manhattan, people can rewatch, or see for the first time, the grainy footage of mankind’s giant leap. Tickets are free and first-come, first-served.
“This was such a majestic event,” said Ron Simon, a television and radio curator at the Paley Center who helped create the anniversary programming. Mr. Simon said he wanted visitors to experience the original telecast to “get a feeling of what people might have been thinking or feeling” in 1969.
In addition to the moon-landing footage, the event will include screenings of NBC’s “The Day They Landed; July 20, 1969,” ABC’s “Infinite Horizons: Space Beyond Apollo” and Part 6 of the HBO mini-series “From the Earth to the Moon: Mare Tranquilitatis.” (The center has more than 160,000 television, radio and advertising programs in its archives.)
A full schedule is available here.
The center is also planning a talk later this year that explores the continuing impact of the moon-landing coverage and what it meant to the people involved.
Television “helped the public think about all the different possibilities of the future,” Mr. Simon said.
Metropolitan Diary: Waiting on a star
Dear Diary:
A steady rain was making my walk on West 60th Street a real slog. Nevertheless, I was soldiering on toward Columbus Circle when I noticed a small crowd huddled near the entrance to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.
As I got closer, I noticed that everyone in the crowd was peering toward the doorway with their cellphones poised, ready to take photos.
“Who are you waiting to see?” I asked a woman as I passed by.
She replied without missing a beat.
“Whoever comes out.”
— Bob Neuman
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