Early Addition: Cheap flights from Long Island to someplace even hotter

Good Monday morning in New York City, where dog poop together with 100-degree heat should make for disgusting sidewalks.

Here's what else is happening:

• Zohran Mamdani's stances on buses (make them free) and child care (also make it free) are playing well in cities like Boston and New Orleans, where versions of these progressive policies already exist.
• NYC Councilmember Justin Brannan is asking Lyft to bar riders under 16 from using electric Citi Bikes.
• When it's not 90 degrees out, some of these new direct flights from MacArthur Airport to smaller towns down South sound appealing.
• Math teacher and satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer has died at the age of 97.
• Someone put a Labubu on Karl Marx's grave.
• Billionaire Texas restaurateur Tilman Fertitta, who's currently serving as Trump's ambassador to Italy, is annoying the Roman locals by allegedly commuting to his job via helicopter from his yacht parked 60 miles north of town.
• I wonder if he puts Aperol in his High Life.
• And finally, rules say you can't touch him: