What you need to know for Tuesday.
What to Know as N.Y.C. Goes Back to School |
Weather: Sunny with a high in the low 80s. Tomorrow may be warmer and wetter. |
Alternate-side parking: In effect until Sept. 30 (Rosh Hashana). |
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The start of any school year brings changes that for students can feel monumental: new teachers, subjects and extracurricular activities, to name a few. |
New York City is facing some bigger changes, and challenges, as it prepares to open schools on Thursday to its 1.1 million students. Here are three things parents and students should know about. |
Segregation has been a longtime problem in the city's schools. Now a panel appointed by Mayor de Blasio wants the city to eliminate many of the gifted programs and selective admissions processes that have led to mostly white and Asian schools in the largely black and Hispanic school system. |
"It's all eyes on the gifted proposal," said Eliza Shapiro, who covers education for The Times. |
The mayor, who has the power to adopt some or all of the panel's suggestions without input from state or city lawmakers, said he was considering them. |
The debate over these recommendations "will likely supplant the Specialized High School Admission Test debate as the focus of the broader debate about how New York City schools should integrate," Ms. Shapiro said. |
There are 1,840 public schools in the city. Recently, the city examined classrooms serving students younger than 6 who attend school in buildings built before 1985. |
Last week, city officials said that 1,858 classrooms needed remediation for lead-based paint. The officials also said the classrooms would be safe and ready by Thursday. |
Cafeteria menu adjustments |
It can be hard to learn on an empty stomach, so schools are also in the business of serving breakfast and lunch. |
Changes have come to that program. |
The city stopped serving salami-and-cheese sandwiches in July in response to public feedback and a report from the World Health Organization on processed meat. |
Also nixed from cafeteria menus as of this summer are bologna-and-cheese sandwiches and items that include presliced turkey ham and presliced turkey Canadian bacon. |
For the first time, every school will offer vegetarian breakfasts and lunches on Meatless Mondays, which started as a pilot program in 15 schools in spring 2018. |
FROM THE TIMES Explore news from New York and around the region |
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When is the bus arriving? Paper schedules were removed from hundreds of city bus stops. (Schedules are available online and via text message.) [Brooklyn Eagle] |
"It's the Wild, Wild West": Central Park needs better bike and pedestrian rules, said Adrian Benepe, the city's former parks commissioner. [Streetsblog] |
The next people to wear body cameras: Peace officers at the Human Resources Administration. [Daily News] |
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. |
Meet Pamela Paul and Maria Russo, the authors of "How to Raise a Reader," on Monday at 7 p.m. at TheTimesCenter. |
Ms. Paul, editor of The New York Times Book Review, and Ms. Russo, its children's books editor, will read passages and answer questions about the book, which explores everything from developing rituals around reading and engaging a reluctant reader to building a family library. |
And finally: The end of a tennis club |
The Times's Corey Kilgannon writes: |
With the United States Open in full swing, things are bustling at the U.S.T.A. Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens. |
But a few miles to the east, in Bayside, a tennis club with a century of history is suddenly quiet and shuttered. |
The North Shore Tennis and Racquets Club was recently sold to a developer who plans on putting up residential buildings, replacing the clubhouse and clay tennis courts once graced by tennis royalty including Bill Tilden — who in 1929 opened the season with an exhibition match — Rod Laver, Arthur Ashe and John McEnroe. |
"I wish it wasn't true," said Mr. McEnroe, a four-time U.S. Open winner and Queens native who played some junior tournaments there. |
Approached at the Open last week, Mr. McEnroe said the Bayside club's demise was the latest in a distressing disappearance of once-vibrant tennis clubs in New York, including Tennisport in Long Island City in 2009. |
"They tear them down and build office space or parking lots," Mr. McEnroe said. "So it's a little sad, but that's what's done." |
Several months ago, members of the Bayside club voted to sell, despite preservation efforts of local groups like the Bayside Historical Society. |
The club originated in 1909 with a single court, and one of its founders was "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, the former heavyweight champion, who lived in Bayside. It steadily expanded, and in the mid-1950s was renamed the North Shore Tennis and Racquets Club. |
"I don't know what else to tell you," said Mr. McEnroe, who shrugged and headed off to catch more U.S. Open action. |
It's Tuesday — are you in the swing of things yet? |
Metropolitan Diary: Summer night |
It wasn't until the bus reached 34th Street that my husband realized he had left a large bed pillow he had just bought on a table at Tucker Square on Broadway and 65th Street. |
When we got home, he debated whether to simply accept that the pillow was gone or to go back uptown on the slim chance that it might still be there. |
It was an otherwise perfect summer night, and I said I would accompany him back uptown. And when we left the subway, there it was, seemingly untouched, right on the table where he had left it. |
Buoyed by our good fortune, we decided not to go straight home. We took a walk in Central Park and then had supper. |
After supper, we continued to walk and wound up following the sound of music to the Bandshell, where a performance of Italian opera selections was about to begin. |
For the next two hours, singers, musicians and the usual array of parkgoers put on a show as I sat on a bench and watched the sun set through the trees, my husband sitting beside me and leaning comfortably on his new pillow. |
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