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| It's Tuesday. |
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| Weather: Mostly sunny, but carry an umbrella: There is a slight chance of showers, and thunderstorms are possible. The high will be near 87. |
| Alternate-side parking: In effect until Thursday, the Fourth of July. |
 James Estrin/The New York Times |
| Racing to beat the light? |
| Think you can speed by a school now that classes are over? |
| Never got a ticket in your neighborhood? |
| Brace yourself. A lot more speed cameras are coming to New York City streets. Say cheese! |
| [Will the nation's largest urban network of speed cameras make the city safer or "one big speed trap?"] |
| What's happening |
| More speed cameras are coming in nearly every neighborhood in an effort to enforce the speed limit (which is 25 miles per hour on most streets). |
| When the expansion is completed, there will be more than 2,000 cameras. |
| And camera hours will more than double: They will operate year-round, from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. every weekday. |
| The result will be the nation's largest urban network of automated speed cameras, The Times's Winnie Hu reported. |
| Why now? |
| Instead of simply renewing the speed camera program, the Democratic lawmakers who control state government voted to make it far more expansive. |
| How does it work? |
| When a camera catches a vehicle going more than 10 m.p.h. over the speed limit, a $50 fine is mailed to the registered owner, Ms. Hu reported. |
| City transportation officials oversee the program, selecting camera sites and reviewing violations before fines are mailed. |
| Note: To get a ticket, a camera must be able to read a vehicle's license plate. Some drivers have purposely obscured their plates. |
| Can I use a radar detector or camera detector to find these cameras? |
| Yes. Here's why: |
| State law prohibits those devices in vehicles weighing 18,000 pounds or more, and in commercial vehicles weighing 10,000 pounds or more. |
| Most cars weigh far less than that. |
| Small sport utility vehicles, minivans and pickup trucks weigh about 6,000 pounds. Sedans and smart cars weigh less. |
| Do cameras prevent speeding and crashes? |
| Supporters say yes, because they help deter unsafe driving. From 2012 to 2016, the number of crashes near the cameras dropped by an average of 15 percent, according to a city analysis of data. |
| During that time, fatalities fell by an average of 55 percent and severe injuries fell by 17 percent. |
| Critics say the cameras don't prevent crashes and primarily generate money for the city. More than 5.2 million violations have been issued — totaling more than $228 million in fines — through last year. |
| Traffic fatalities dropped after cameras were installed, but recently started creeping up, Ms. Hu reported. |
| What's next? |
| City officials expect to have 300 cameras operating in 215 school zones on July 11, when the expansion takes effect. |
| They plan to add between 40 and 60 new cameras a month through the end of 2021. |
| After a surge in cyclist fatalities, the mayor orders police action |
| The first six months of 2019 have been deadly for cyclists in New York City, prompting a sea change policy for Mayor de Blasio's administration. |
| The mayor announced yesterday that the police will "crack down on dangerous driving." Previously, after fatal crashes, the police had targeted cyclists for enforcement action, critics noted. |
| According to a spokesman for the mayor, police officers and traffic enforcement agents in every precinct will make it a priority to give tickets to motorists who speed, fail to yield to pedestrians or cyclists, double park or obstruct bike lanes. The enforcement action will last three weeks, the spokesman said. |
| The city's Department of Transportation is also developing a "cyclist safety plan," Mr. de Blasio said. Details of the plan were not immediately available. Already, 14 cyclists have died in crashes so far this year, up from 10 total fatalities reported last year. |
| From The Times |
 Todd Heisler/The New York Times |
| Should Macy's build a giant tower in one of New York's most congested neighborhoods? |
| "Gay," "femme," "nonbinary": How identity shaped the lives of these 10 New Yorkers. |
| Nearly $60 million was awarded to a city student who was engulfed in flames in a chemistry accident. |
| Why "raising a black son" is a de Blasio campaign theme. |
| [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 |
| Taxi drivers now have a relief area, by Houston and East First Streets. [EV Grieve] |
| The police are investigating five attacks on teenage girls in the last two weeks at the Staten Island Mall. [Staten Island Advance] |
| Vishaan Chakrabarti, the founder of a New York-based architecture firm who was also a top planner during Mayor Michael Bloomberg's first term, is now the dean of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. [Crain's New York Business] |
| Coming up today |
| Taiwan legalized same-sex marriage in May, and "The Wedding Banquet" at Parasol Projects' 213 Bowery location in Manhattan is an exhibition that celebrates the stories of Taiwan's queer community. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. [Free] |
| The comedian Rollie Williams plays Al Gore interviewing comedians and scientists, including David Wallace-Wells, the author of "The Uninhabitable Earth," about climate change in "An Inconvenient Talk Show" at Caveat in Manhattan. 6:30 p.m. [$10] |
| Puck, Quinton Brock and Nathan Bajar bring stoner rock, R&B and soul to C'mon Everybody in Brooklyn. 8 p.m. [$10] |
| — Vivian Ewing |
| 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: From the archives |
 Paul Hosefros/The New York Times |
| The Times's Sebastian Vega writes: |
| In July 1976, The New York Times photographer Paul Hosefros captured this photo of a winged evangelist stopping for an ice cream bar in Manhattan. "Look who just dropped in from California, not from where the wings suggest. It's Kedrick Wolf, an actor and self-styled 'Angelic Janitorial Ramasan,'" The Times reported. "His mission: 'cleaning up the mess and spreading the light spirit.'" |
| That summer, ice cream bars weren't the only thing keeping New Yorkers happy in the heat. Frozen yogurt was on the rise. |
| "In the last few months, the custardlike food has become one of the hottest-selling fast-food items since McDonald's hamburgers," The Times said. |
| At the time, companies were just starting to franchise yogurt stores throughout the United States. The treat had been introduced four years earlier in Cambridge, Mass., and quickly became a campus favorite. |
| "Consumers seemed intrigued by a product that looked and tasted almost like soft ice cream, has natural fruits or fruit extracts mixed in to produce a variety of flavors, could be served with a number of different toppings and was low in calories," The Times noted. |
| See more old photos at our archival storytelling project, Past Tense, and on Instagram: @nytarchives. |
| It's Tuesday — keep cool. |
| Metropolitan Diary: Signature scent |
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| Dear Diary: |
| Opium by Yves Saint Laurent has long been my signature perfume, and I have gotten many compliments on it. One in particular stands out. |
| In the days when tokens were used for bridge crossings in New York, I commuted from Riverdale to Wall Street via the Henry Hudson Bridge. Every day, I would pull into the tollbooth and, leaning out the car window, prepare to either throw a token into the metal basket or buy a new roll of tokens. |
| One day, as I was going through my usual routine, the attendant, a man, leaned out and looked at me. |
| "Is that Opium?" he asked. |
| I laughed. |
| "Yes, it is," I said, and then drove off. |
| — Marlys Appleton |
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