Schools closed. Broadway, sports and other events canceled. Air travel heavily impacted. Facemasks being handed out. It may sound like a COVID flashback, but all are happening in the NYC area due to dangerous air quality from wildfire smoke
As a result of the elevated levels, several schools in the NYC area were closed at least through Thursday. While NYC public schools have scheduled days off for the rest of the week, officials in Yonkers, Elizabeth, Newark and more kept students out of classrooms for the day.
against the Chicago White Sox, have a doubleheader at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Thursday — but again, it remains to be seen if air quality levels will allow either of those games to happen.Broadway could be off the table as well. Wednesday's matinee performance of"Prima Facie" Libraries across the city closed operations early on Wednesday, and the city announced alternate side parking rules would be suspended on Thursday.
The city's Air Quality Index reached"hazardous" levels Wednesday afternoon, and by 6 p.m. had reached 333, according to AirNow. At that level, the site states"New York City Health Commissioner Aswin Vasan said there was"the worst air quality in New York City since the 1960s" already this week, and that promised to continue Thursday.
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