Good Tuesday afternoon in New York City, alleged birthplace of the hot dog.
Here's what else is happening:
- The town of Somers, New York, would like teenagers to stop sneaking into its abandoned IBM campus.
- A tanker truck full of liquid oxygen caught fire outside Bellevue Hospital this morning, prompting an FDNY hazmat response.
- Residents and partygoers at a luxury high-rise in Bushwick said illegal fireworks set off on the street on July 4 hit the building and, in one case, hit a woman in the chest.
- The air quality in Washington, D.C. after its big July 4 fireworks show was very poor.
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reportedly talk to each other before making political endorsements.
- Beware rip currents.
- Italy is making its own version of the "House of Gucci" story.
- And finally, 8.2:
