Did you know that a majority of World Cup games are being played on New Jersey grass?
Over half the tournament's pitches were grown by experts at Rutgers University. Only the best Jersey grass for the best players in the world!
NYC summers hate your weekends.
I analyzed 3 years of Central Park rain data to see if the feeling was real.
It was.
27 of 38 summer weekends had measurable rain.
That’s 71%.
Friday was the rainiest day of the week, with rain on 43.6% of summer Fridays. Basically worse than a coin flip for your evening plans.
Sunday had the highest rainfall volume of any day, averaging 0.17 inches. It may not rain every Sunday, but when it does, it commits.
Thursday was objectively the best day to be outside in NYC: lowest precipitation, clearest skies, least weekend-related misery.
The wildest stat:
70.8% of rainy Sundays were preceded by a gross Friday or Saturday.
The weekend basically telegraphs its own downfall.
I built a full dashboard using NWS Central Park data with every weekend tracked and every raindrop counted:
Congratulations to Mayor Mamdani. He inherited a huge budget deficit, brought it down to zero, and still invested in childcare, housing and city infrastructure.
When municipal governments stand with working families, not billionaires, there is nothing they cannot accomplish.