Climate: Some clouds, turning into sunnier within the afternoon with temperatures reaching the low 60s.
Alternate-side parking: In impact till April 29 (Holy Thursday, Orthodox).
The nuclear plant referred to as Indian Level will shut for good on April 30, fulfilling a long-held precedence of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
However closing the plant may create a brand new ecological drawback: With out the electrical energy it produces, extra of the state’s energy will come from pure gasoline crops, which emit air pollution that contributes to local weather change.
[Indian Point is shutting down. That means more fossil fuel.]
The doable spike in emissions appears to fly within the face of the Cuomo administration’s push to have a lot of the state’s vitality produced by renewable sources by 2030.
Right here’s what it’s essential know:
Why some say Indian Level ought to shut
Indian Level is on the east financial institution of the Hudson River, simply 25 miles away from New York Metropolis.
The plant has been the location of protests and occasional scary incidents, together with a 2015 hearth that knocked out certainly one of its reactors, and a few environmental teams have complained about its impact on groundwater and the Hudson.
The rising provide of low cost pure gasoline and elevated prevalence of renewable vitality sources have additionally made comparatively costly nuclear crops much less economically aggressive.
Why Indian Level issues
When Mr. Cuomo introduced 4 years in the past that he would shut Indian Level, the plant produced a couple of quarter of the town’s vitality.
Critics say that closing the plant will make assembly sustainability targets tougher, and there’s proof to assist that concept. When certainly one of Indian Level’s two working reactors shut down completely final summer season, the share of the state’s energy that got here from gas-powered mills elevated by a number of share factors.
Renewables will finally fill the hole, officers say
State officers acknowledge that dropping Indian Level will probably be a step within the flawed course, however say that will probably be made up by a leap ahead in clear vitality sources, like wind and photo voltaic.
“As soon as the large-scale renewable and offshore wind farms are full, greater than half of New York’s electrical energy will come from renewable sources, placing the state forward of schedule towards reaching its purpose of 70 % renewable vitality by 2030,” Tom Congdon, the chairman of Mr. Cuomo’s Indian Level Job Pressure, advised my colleague Patrick McGeehan.
However these initiatives will take years to finish, and within the meantime the state is prone to have to make use of extra gas-burning crops to fulfill its vitality wants.
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And eventually: A Google Doodle to rejoice the Met
On the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s a hundred and fiftieth anniversary one yr in the past in the present day, New York Metropolis was locked down, and the museum’s assortment was solely obtainable on-line.
The Met is now open to guests, however at the very least a part of the celebration for its 151st anniversary is on-line: A Google Doodle by the artist Erich Nagler.
The Doodle, a whimsical rendering that makes use of rotating works from the Met’s assortment of greater than 1.5 million items as letters to spell the identify “Google,” went stay on the search engine’s house web page in the US at midnight and can keep there for twenty-four hours.
The artworks float above a drawing of the Met, with strains pointing to the part of the museum the place guests can discover them.
Mr. Nagler stated that his purpose for the Doodle was to attempt to recreate the sensation of visiting the museum.
“The looping animation exhibits the place the artworks are situated contained in the museum,” Mr. Nagler stated. “This captures the serendipity and shock of wandering the galleries and discovering these stunning masterpieces.”
Max Hollein, the Met’s director, advised me in an interview that in the course of the pandemic, engagement with the museum on-line grew precipitously — there was 76.5 % extra site visitors on the museum’s web site.
The Doodle was partially a method to rejoice that expanded entry to the museum’s treasures, he stated.
“Museums are such an essential a part of our lives, and there are lots of methods to expertise tradition,” Mr. Hollein stated. “You may even expertise them in a Google Doodle.”
It’s Tuesday — take a look at one thing stunning.
Metropolitan Diary: Fast cease
Expensive Diary:
Nate and I had simply completed a enterprise assembly in New Rochelle and we had a few hours to kill earlier than catching our flight house. We determined to take the rental automotive for a spin round Manhattan.
At one level throughout our drive, Nate determined he wished a soda. He parked in entrance of a small grocery and ran inside.
When he acquired to the register, he discovered himself behind an older lady with a basket filled with groceries. Indicating that he had simply the one merchandise, he requested whether or not it will be all proper if he jumped forward of her.
She appeared him up and down, contemplating the thought for a second.
“No,” she stated.
— Douglas Gibboney
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