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Early Addition: Watch a Brooklyn rat give himself a little bath on a lily pad
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Published Aug 5, 2025
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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:
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