Early Addition: The air in New York City is a bit gross today
Aug. 4, 2025, 10:58 a.m.
Because Canadian tourists are staying away but Canadian wildfire smoke is not, here are your early links: Interborough Express plan gets activated, new hybrid Governors Island ferry, ice cream that won't really melt and more.

Good Monday morning in New York City, where businesses continue to suffer from the absence of Canadian tourists.
Here's what else is happening:
- A health advisory is in effect today due to Canadian wildfire smoke blowing through New York City.
- Meet the many Jews for Zohran.
- The Interborough Express light rail, long a project in the "planning" phase, has been upgraded to the "active" phase.
- A new battery-powered ferry they almost named "Hybrid McBoatface" is about to start carrying passengers to and from Governors Island.
- A minke whale died Saturday in Barnegat Bay off the Jersey Shore after colliding with a boat.
- A Greenpoint middle school teacher is spending his summer putting stickers of people's dogs all over stuff.
- "Like a bra for your ice cream." Food scientists have figured out a new way to keep ice cream from melting, basically.
- President Donald Trump called Charlamagne Tha God a "dope" for criticizing his Medicaid cuts and using "God" in his stage moniker.
- "Baby Racer Stunts On Competitors By Standing Up And Walking."
- And finally, blessed:
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) August 4, 2025