Home United States USA — Art New York Today: Hurricane Michael Effects

New York Today: Hurricane Michael Effects

205
0
SHARE

Friday: Stormy weather and a shade analysis of your apartment.
Good morning on this cool and blustery Friday.
What’s left of Hurricane Michael is currently passing to our south.
While the city has avoided direct landfall, the outer bands and winds of the storm may graze the outer parts of Long Island, causing flash floods and provoking damaging winds in places like Montauk.
The hurricane — now a post-tropical storm — had resulted in at least six deaths as of Thursday night and left a trail of widespread destruction as it carved its way up from Florida.
[ Read our live updates on the storm .]
The swirling center of the storm will stay far offshore, but it will still affect New York.
“Michael will not have a direct impact on us, but it will be interacting with a cold front that will be moving through our region,” said Carlie Buccola, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service. And the result is weather whiplash.
Expect patchy showers this morning and very gusty winds this afternoon.
Most of the rain has already landed. But by the time the last drop falls this morning, the total in some areas in our region may have reached four inches. For some perspective, if that were snow, it would be equivalent to more than four feet.
So depending where you live, you may want to break out your galoshes.
And consider taking a light jacket. Temperatures are falling fast.
Cold and dry air from Canada are pouring into the region on the heels of the storm, and today temperatures won’t be much higher than 60 degrees .
Tomorrow, the high drops into the 50s with a chance of more (cold) rain.
Here’s what else is happening:
• Harvey Weinstein had one of his six sexual assault charges dismissed after prosecutors discovered evidence that cast doubt on one woman’s story. [ New York Times]
• Five doctors were charged with taking more than $5 million in return for prescribing oxycodone pills to patients who had no medical need for them [ New York Times]
• Top Republicans in New Jersey are calling for legislative hearings after a top aide of Gov. Philip D. Murphy resigned amid allegations of sexual assault. [ New York Times]
• An inquiry into New York City’s investigation commissioner found that he overstepped his authority when he seized control of the agency that polices misconduct in city schools. [ New York Times]
• At some schools in the poorest neighborhoods of the city, hiring and retaining teachers is difficult. A new contract signed by the teachers’ union may provide incentive to change that. [ New York Times]
• A Brooklyn man was charged in the killing of a reputed mobster at a McDonald’s drive-through last week. [ New York Times]
• The organizer of the disastrous Fyre music festival was sentenced to six years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud charges. [ New York Times]
• The New York Police Department has been testing a lasso gun to better de-escalate situations and subdue mentally ill suspects. [ Gothamist]
• For a global look at what’s happening, see Your Morning Briefing .
• It’s Open House New York weekend. Explore more than 140 lesser-known locations throughout the city. Prices and times vary. Through Sunday. Here’s the full calendar.
• The exhibition “ It’s Alive! Frankenstein at 200 ” commemorates two centuries of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece, at the Morgan Library and Museum. 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. [$20]
• An al fresco screening of the thriller “ Get Out ” at Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn. 6:30 p.m. [Free]
• A performance of Shakespeare’s “ A Midsummer Night’s Dream ” by the Public Theater Mobile Unit at the Williamsburg Oval in the Bronx. 7 p.m. [Free]
• Watch “The New York Times Close Up,” featuring Christopher Massimine of the Folksbiene Theater and other guests. Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 1:30 p.m. and Sunday at 12:30 p.m. on CUNY-TV.
• Alternate-side parking remains in effect until Nov. 1.
• Weekend travel hassles: Check subway disruptions and a list of street closings .
Saturday
• The revamped New York City Fringe Festival continues with dozens of theater performances across the city. Through Oct. 31. Prices and times vary.
• Zumba, yoga and dance workshops with Alvin Ailey Extension and others are part of the Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration in Washington Heights. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. [Free]
• Sample local suds at the Queens Beer Festival at the LIC Flea and Food in Long Island City, Queens. Noon. Also Sunday. [$19]
• “ PASS: With the Changes,” a site-specific contemporary dance performance at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island. 6 p.m. [$10]
• An evening of jazz music at Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, Queens. 8 p.m. [$16]
Sunday
• A petting zoo, puppet shows and a beer garden at the Harvest Fest and Pumpkin Patch at the Queens Botanical Garden in Flushing. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. [$12]
• Learn street curling at Parklife in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Noon to 3 p.m. [Free]
• Learn how to row a boat on the Hudson River at Pier 40 in Lower Manhattan. Noon. [Free]
• For more events, see The New York Times’s Arts & Entertainment guide .
On Whitehall Street
Dear Diary:
I was called up for the draft during the Korean War. I had to go for a medical exam at the induction center on Whitehall Street in Lower Manhattan.
All inductees were instructed to strip down to our underwear and socks and to tuck our wallets into our waistbands.
Then we were told to hurry, one at a time, to designated rooms where specific tests — hearing, blood pressure, eyesight and so on — would be performed.
A young man in front of me had just finished up in room No. 12 and had been told to go downstairs to room No. 13. I was going there too, so the two of us headed down together.
On our way down, we passed a closed door with no number on it. Before I could warn him, the guy I was with opened the door and rushed through it.
Just before the door slammed shut, I caught a glimpse of him in his underwear, his wallet tucked in it, looking confused as he stood outside on the sidewalk.
— Lou Singer
As we continue to slide into fall, our days are getting shorter.
Today in New York, we’ll get only 11 hours and 18 minutes of sunlight, down from more than 15 hours in June.
And depending on where you live, you may experience even less.
To help New Yorkers understand just how much sun a potential building gets during the day, Localize.city, a website that uses public data to provide insight about city addresses, created a shade analysis of every building in the city .
The analysis calculated the azimuth (or arc) of the sun across every facade in the city.

Continue reading...