Early Addition: Watch a Brooklyn rat give himself a little bath on a lily pad
Aug. 5, 2025, 10:11 a.m.
Because it's a rat, but cute, here are your early links: The air remains bad, Rockaway Beach call-out for nudes, Danish zoo seeking pets to feed to other animals and more.
Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where 11 more libraries are about to be open seven days a week.
Here's what else is happening:
- Be careful breathing this hazy wildfire air — one pulmonologist said exposure when the air quality index is over 100 "is similar to smoking a quarter to half a pack a day."
- More than 40 protesters were arrested outside Trump International hotel last night during a demonstration organized by a Jewish American group over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
- Check out this rat sunbathing on a lily pad in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
- A PG-13 message from Rockaway Beach.
- People seemed to enjoy bring-your-cat night at a recent Brooklyn Cyclones game.
- If you have a sick old pet — preferably a chicken, rabbit, horse or guinea pig — a Danish zoo will accept it as a donation feed it to the animals.
- Go jump in a cold lake.
- And finally, clean, unbothered: