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  June 7, 2023, 5:06 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 5:06 p.m. ET

Wildfire SmokeNew York City Air Quality Hits Worst Level on Record

  Smoke from Canadian wildfires triggered air pollution warnings. Gov.
  Kathy Hochul of New York called the worsening air quality “an emergency
  crisis.”
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[13]Here’s the latest on the worsening air quality in the U.S.

  The sky in New York City rapidly darkened on Wednesday afternoon, as a
  plume of smoke from Canadian wildfires approached the nation’s largest
  city and sent the air quality index soaring past 324, the worst since
  the Environmental Protection Agency began recording air quality
  measurements in 1999.

  Midtown Manhattan was plunged into a deep hazy orange and smoky clouds
  obscured visibility across the five boroughs and around the region,
  canceling some flights. Earlier in the day, commuters donned Covid
  masks to walk the streets, children were kept indoors at recess, some
  schools closed and officials warned millions of people to avoid going
  outside.

  For much of Wednesday, the air quality index in Syracuse surpassed 400,
  according to [14]AirNow, which designates a reading above 100 as
  “unhealthy” to breathe and above 300 as “hazardous.”

  In Binghamton, about 60 miles south of Syracuse, Mike Hardiman, a
  meteorologist with the National Weather Service said the city “looks
  like Mars” and “smells like cigars.”

  Speaking to reporters, Gov. Kathy Hochul called the worsening air
  quality in New York “an emergency crisis,” warning it could last
  several days: “People have to prepare for this over the long haul.”

  Hundreds of fires have been burning in eastern Canada for weeks. As
  smoke drifted south over parts of the U.S. Northeast and Midwest, one
  New York City commuter on Tuesday [15]described the smell as
  progressing from “burnt toast” to “campfire.”

  The air quality in New York remained the worst it has been since the
  1960s, according to the city’s health commissioner, Ashwin Vasan. The
  city’s schools were open but were not holding outdoor activities,
  [16]Mayor Eric Adams announced. Much of New York State was under an air
  quality health advisory [17]alert — indicating that the index was
  expected to surpass 100 — that was in effect until Wednesday night.

  The poor air quality could have widespread effects among healthy people
  and serious ones for those with respiratory conditions, [18]according
  to federal guidelines. Such high readings are typical in smoggy
  megacities like Jakarta or [19]New Delhi but rare in New York, where
  decades of state and federal laws have helped to reduce emissions.

  Here’s what else to know:
    * Canada, where nearly 250 fires were burning out of control as of
      early Wednesday, was also in for more haze. Parts of Quebec and
      Ontario were under a [20]smog warning, and experts warned that the
      air in Toronto and elsewhere was likely to worsen — probably on
      Thursday — before getting better.
    * Satellite imagery showed haze engulfing parts of the United States
      on Wednesday, and warnings were in effect across a wide portion of
      the Northeast and [21]Midwest. Philadelphia was under a “[22]code
      red,” meaning sensitive groups could be at risk.
    * The haze was expected to linger for a couple of days because the
      weather system pushing it around the atmosphere was relatively
      stagnant, the National Weather Service [23]said in a forecast.
      Forecast models showed that a more dense smoke layer could reach
      further west into cities like Pittsburgh on Thursday.

  Hilary Howard, Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Asmaa Elkeurti contributed
  reporting.
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  June 7, 2023, 5:06 p.m. ET
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  Schools in Western New York are canceling after-school activities,
  though the air is largely clear in downtown Buffalo.
  Jennie Coughlin
  June 7, 2023, 5:05 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 5:05 p.m. ET

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  Reporting from New York
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  The view from the Manhattan Bridge is hazier than it was at 6:30 a.m.,
  but visibility has improved since early afternoon.

Latest 8-hour smoke forecast

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  due to cloud cover or other obstructions. Contours show estimated
  concentrations of wildfire smoke near the surface. By Madison Dong and
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  June 7, 2023, 5:05 p.m. ET
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  Citing poor air quality, New York City has suspended alternate side
  parking for Thursday.
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  June 7, 2023, 5:05 p.m. ET
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  Vineyard Theater, an Off Broadway nonprofit in the Union Square
  neighborhood of Manhattan, has canceled tonight’s performance of the
  play “This Land Was Made,” citing “hazardous air quality conditions.”
  [25]Benjamin Hoffman
  June 7, 2023, 4:51 p.m. ET
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[27]Yankees game postponed because of ‘hazardous’ air quality.

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  The air conditions at Yankee Stadium were considered to be hazardous on
  Wednesday afternoon.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

  With air quality in the Bronx registering at “hazardous” levels because
  of [28]smoke from wildfires in Canada, Major League Baseball postponed
  a game between the Yankees and the Chicago White Sox, which had been
  scheduled for 7:05 p.m. on Wednesday at Yankee Stadium.

  The game will be made up on Thursday as the first game of a
  single-admission doubleheader, [29]the Yankees said. That could change
  if the air quality conditions do not improve.

  A game between the Phillies and the Detroit Tigers in Philadelphia was
  also postponed on Wednesday, as was [30]a W.N.B.A. game between the
  Minnesota Lynx and the Liberty in Brooklyn.

  The decision to postpone the M.L.B. games — made at the league level
  with input from the teams, the players’ union and weather experts —
  came at 4:30 p.m. Eastern, with the air quality in the Bronx
  [31]registering at 413 on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Air
  Quality Index, according to AirNow. Philadelphia’s A.Q.I. [32]was at
  233.

  The Yankees and the White Sox [33]played through a night game on
  Tuesday in which the A.Q.I. was higher than 150 at the first pitch and
  was registering at higher than 200 shortly after the game ended.
  (Anything from 101 to 150 is classified as unhealthy for sensitive
  groups. From 151 to 200 is unhealthy, 201 to 300 is very unhealthy and
  anything over 301 is hazardous.)

  Several players worked out on the field at Yankee Stadium during the
  day on Wednesday, including Carlos Rodón, a starting pitcher trying to
  work his way back from the injured list. But with conditions worsening,
  the decision was made to postpone the games, which brought M.L.B. in
  line with the decisions made at the minor league level in Syracuse,
  N.Y., and near Scranton, Pa., on both Tuesday and Wednesday.

    Carlos Rodón is pitching at Yankee Stadium right now.
    He’s throwing a live session against hitters like Jake Bauers and
    Oswaldo Cabrera. [34]pic.twitter.com/w4kc94WwET
    — Max Goodman (@MaxTGoodman) [35]June 7, 2023

  Other M.L.B. games in the Northeast were not postponed on Wednesday
  because the conditions in those cities were not as severe. The Pirates
  played an afternoon game against the Oakland Athletics in Pittsburgh
  with an A.Q.I. in excess of 150 at various points. The Guardians were
  expected to play their night game against the Boston Red Sox in
  Cleveland with the A.Q.I. at around 100.

  While there were numerous complaints from journalists and fans on
  social media about the decision to play the full slate of games on
  Tuesday, players and coaches for the Yankees played down the
  difficulty. Third baseman Josh Donaldson said that it seemed foggy but
  was “nothing out of the ordinary,” and Manager Aaron Boone compared it
  to the smog that teams are used to playing through in Southern
  California.

  A situation similar to this week’s events played out on the West Coast
  in 2020. The Oakland Athletics and the Seattle Mariners [36]played a
  September doubleheader that season with an A.Q.I. of 220 at the first
  pitch, also as a result of wildfires, only for M.L.B. to relocate the
  Mariners’ next two games to San Francisco after criticism from players
  and fans.
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  June 7, 2023, 4:41 p.m. ET
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  New York City’s Air Quality Index has just reached a “hazardous” 413,
  according to data from AirNow.
  Benjamin Hoffman
  June 7, 2023, 4:39 p.m. ET
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  A game between the Minnesota Lynx and New York Liberty has been
  postponed because of air quality issues that were affecting conditions
  at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, according to the W.N.B.A.
  Benjamin Hoffman
  June 7, 2023, 4:38 p.m. ET
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  Major League Baseball has postponed two of Wednesday night’s games
  because of poor air quality. The Yankees were expected to play the
  Chicago White Sox in the Bronx, and the Philadelphia Phillies were
  expected to play the Detroit Tigers in Philadelphia, but both will now
  be rescheduled.
  Troy Closson
  June 7, 2023, 4:27 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 4:27 p.m. ET

  Troy Closson
  Reporting from New York
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  New York City’s public schools were previously scheduled to be closed
  for children on Thursday, taking one major issue off the plate of city
  officials. Still, tens of thousands of teachers and staff were set to
  attend a professional development workshop, and officials have not yet
  decided whether it will become virtual.

  On Wednesday afternoon, [37]the chair of the City Council’s education
  committee and a group of [38]educators within the city’s teachers union
  both called for all in-person programming to be canceled.

    In light of the recent public health advisories from both State and
    City agencies; I am calling for [39]@NYCSchools staff to be
    permitted to work remotely tomorrow, especially since students will
    have off due to Brooklyn Queens Day.
    — Rita Joseph #BlackLivesMatter (@RitaJosephNYC) [40]June 7, 2023

    Here is MORE’s response to the Air Quality Advisory & Chancellor’s
    Day tomorrow:
    As this statement is written, the New York State Department of
    Environmental Conservation has extended the Air Quality Health
    Advisory for New York State to June 8th, & Air Quality is considered
    1/7
    — MORE-UFT (@MOREcaucusUFT) [41]June 7, 2023

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  [42]Campbell Robertson
  Reporting from Washington, D.C.
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[43]At one Washington market, taking in crepes, popcorn and Code Red.

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  A haze settles over the U.S. Capitol as the air quality worsens from
  the wildfires in Canada.Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York Times

  Even as the haze hung heavy in the blue-white sky over the nation’s
  capital on Wednesday afternoon, the weekly market carried on in Woodrow
  Wilson Plaza, just north of the National Mall.

  The booths had been open since the morning, and the after-lunch crowd
  filtered through, looking over produce, crepes, popcorn and jewelry,
  seemingly unconcerned by the unusual sky above.

  Across the Washington, D.C., area, though, schools had been taking
  steps to limit students’ exposure, as the air quality deteriorated to
  Code Red levels. Public schools in the District, and some of the
  Maryland and Virginia suburbs, canceled all outdoor activities.

  At the market in Wilson Plaza, two vendors, Sunah Blu and Milton
  McCarl, chatted over the tables of body butter and herbal soap, talking
  about the air around them.

  “It looks like a heavy fog, but a dirty fog,” Ms. Blu, 46, said.

  They both agreed: It seemed part of a pattern of odd phenomena
  recently. The weather was strange over the weekend, getting colder and
  then hotter suddenly. At the Eastern Market on Capitol Hill, where they
  set up shop on Saturdays, a couple of fights broke out, which was
  unusual, they said. There was t[44]he sonic boom on Sunday. And now
  this.

  “It feels like something broke in the atmosphere,” Mr. McCarl said.
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  In a news conference, Gov. Kathy Hochul encouraged New Yorkers to stay
  indoors if they can. She said the state saw an 800 percent increase in
  worsening air conditions over the past 24 hours, reaching hazardous
  conditions. “The bottom line is this: If you can stay indoors, stay
  indoors. This is detrimental to people’s health,” she said, adding,
  “You may not see it, you may not even feel it, but it is having a
  negative effect on everyone.”
  [46]Judson Jones
  June 7, 2023, 3:57 p.m. ET
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  [47]Judson Jones
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[48]How long will the smoke last?

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  Lifeguards at an empty Orchard Beach in the Bronx on
  Wednesday.Credit...Gregg Vigliotti for The New York Times

  The worst period of hazy, unhealthy air in New York City will last from
  Wednesday afternoon through Thursday morning, according to a New York
  Times analysis of computer forecast models. The haze will likely vary
  in thickness through the overnight hours and could last through the day
  Thursday.

  The Washington, D.C., region can expect dense smoke to arrive Wednesday
  night and last into the day Thursday.

  Forecast models for smoke near the surface show that from Thursday
  night into Friday, the main swath of dense smoke could move further
  west, into western Pennsylvania and Ohio.

  However, the further into the future you go, the less confident
  forecasters are in predicting the effects and density of the smoke.

  That is partly because the high-resolution computer models get
  refreshed once an hour and are distributed a little less than a day in
  advance. Also, the models can’t predict how much smoke the wildfires
  will produce over the next several days.

  This has been a perfect weather scenario to create extremely unhealthy
  air. A persistent blocking pattern has locked the weather in place,
  leaving a storm system hovering near Nova Scotia and pushing strong
  northerly winds over the Canadian wildfires.

  Strong wind has kept the smoke together and nearer to the surface as it
  pushed into the United States. If there had been calmer winds, the
  smoke would have risen and dispersed more in the atmosphere, making it
  less concentrated.

  The weather pattern may finally break down this weekend, and by Sunday
  the winds may shift, providing relief from the smoke. Relief could come
  even earlier if progress is made on putting out the wildfires.

  Don’t hold your breath, though; experts say this is only the start of
  wildfire season in North America.
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  June 7, 2023, 3:51 p.m. ET
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  Speaking with reporters, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada said
  on Wednesday that his government is looking into the possibility of
  creating a federal disaster response organization.

  “We continue to discuss and look at new mechanisms and new ways of
  doing that,” he said.

  “We need to continue to make sure we are doing everything possible to
  both keep Canadians safe when these extreme weather events hit, but
  also make sure we’re doing everything we can to predict, protect and
  act ahead of more of these events coming.”
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  Credit...Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press, via Associated Press
  June 7, 2023, 3:51 p.m. ET
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  Outside a popular soul food restaurant in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Mohammad
  Uddin, a food delivery worker, said he had started his shift around 1
  p.m. He would normally work until 10 p.m., but with a greenish haze
  settling overhead, Mr. Uddin said he would not work past 6 p.m. A
  native of Bangladesh who said he has lived in Brooklyn for five years,
  Mr. Uddin estimated that he would earn about $100 for the day — a
  figure he described as middling.
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  June 7, 2023, 3:51 p.m. ET
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  All three of New York City’s library systems closed their doors at 3:30
  pm today, a few hours earlier than normal, because of deteriorating air
  quality conditions, according to spokeswomen for the agencies. The
  three systems have hundreds of combined locations and normally stay
  open until at least 6 p.m. on weekdays. Many unhoused people spend time
  at the city’s libraries during the day.
  [49]Michael Paulson
  June 7, 2023, 3:47 p.m. ET
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[51]Jodie Comer leaves the stage of her Broadway show because of air quality
concerns.

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  Jodie Comer in her one-woman show “Prima Facie.”Credit...Sara
  Krulwich/The New York Times

  The actress Jodie Comer, who has been nominated for a Tony Award for
  her tour-de-force performance in the one-woman show “[52]Prima Facie,”
  stopped a performance on Broadway shortly after it had begun on
  Wednesday afternoon, citing difficulty breathing because of the
  wildfire smoke that has blanketed New York City.

  “Today’s matinee of ‘Prima Facie’ was halted approximately 10 minutes
  into the performance after Jodie Comer had difficulty breathing due to
  the poor air quality in New York City because of smoke from the
  Canadian wildfires,” Jim Byk, a spokesman for the production, said in a
  statement.

  The performance then restarted with an understudy, Dani Arlington.

  Ms. Comer, known for her work on the TV show “Killing Eve,” is a
  leading contender to win the Tony for best actress in a play during the
  awards ceremony on Sunday. In “Prima Facie” she plays a defense lawyer
  whose clients have included men accused of sexual assault, but who then
  is sexually assaulted herself and begins to see the legal system in a
  different way.
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  June 7, 2023, 3:42 p.m. ET
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  The New York City Air Quality Index has reached 392, even higher than
  the record set earlier today, according to the [54]AirNow Index.
  Judson Jones
  June 7, 2023, 3:42 p.m. ET
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  Visibility — measured in miles in the United States — indicates how far
  a person can see and is most commonly used during dense fog and
  blizzards. Today it is being used to measure how far people can see in
  the dense smoke layer. In New York, visibility has at times been
  reduced to around a mile [55]making the city’s skyscrapers seem to
  disappear.

    Check out this almost unbelievable time-lapse of wildfire smoke
    consuming the World Trade Center and the New York City skyline.
    Those vulnerable to poor air quality, including seniors and young
    children, should limit time outdoors if possible.
    More: [56]https://t.co/ChRuWv7X6E [57]pic.twitter.com/mtKtLun8lN
    — NWS New York NY (@NWSNewYorkNY) [58]June 7, 2023

  June 7, 2023, 3:26 p.m. ET
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  Rauf Rahimov, 27, a pedicab driver in Central Park, heard on the news
  that the polluted air would last for days but that did not deter him
  from coming to work. “We’re doing outdoor businesses, most of our
  income comes from the tourists. No tourists, no people, no income,” he
  said while laying on the back of his cab waiting for tourists to call
  on him for a ride.
  [59]Tracey Tully
  June 7, 2023, 3:26 p.m. ET
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  [60]Tracey Tully
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[61]A wildfire near the Jersey Shore is 70 percent contained.

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  From Weehawken, N.J., the New York City skyline was obscured by haze
  from the Canadian wildfires.Credit...Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

  A blaze that spread overnight to 70 acres in central New Jersey now has
  a name: Glory Wildfire.

  By Wednesday, the fire was about 70 percent contained, a technical term
  used to define the portion of a blaze surrounded by a so-called fuel
  break, which limits its risk of spreading, according to the state’s
  Forest Fire Service.

  But residents of Jackson, N.J., where the wildfire was still
  threatening 15 homes and businesses, were urged to take precautions as
  airborne [62]particulate levels climbed to levels considered unhealthy
  for the second day in a row.

  The cause of the wildfire remains under investigation, a spokeswoman
  for the Department of Environmental Protection said.

  Wildfires are relatively common in New Jersey. So far this year, 819
  wildfires have burned more than 14,500 acres, according to the
  environmental protection agency.

  In April, one large blaze, [63]Jimmy’s Wildfire, burned nearly 4,000
  acres in Manchester Township, southeast of Jackson.

  The number of fires that have burned during the first five months of
  the year is significantly higher than the state experienced in either
  2022 or 2021.

  Last year, 539 wildfires burned 740 acres between January and early
  June, state officials said. In 2021, 650 wildfires burned 1,800 acres
  during the same period of time.

  “Make no mistake, from the wildfires in Canada to those cropping up
  with increasing frequency and severity in our own backyard, these
  extreme weather events are tangible — and devastating — evidence of the
  intensifying climate crisis,” New Jersey’s governor, Philip D. Murphy,
  a Democrat, said in a statement.

    WILDFIRE UPDATE: Glory Wildfire - East Commodore Blvd. - Jackson
    Twp, Ocean County[64]@njdepforestfire made substantial progress
    overnight in containing a wildland-urban interface wildfire burning
    in Jackson Twp.
    The wildfire has grown to 70 acres in size and is now 70% contained.
    [65]pic.twitter.com/zQJafI86eg
    — New Jersey Forest Fire Service (@njdepforestfire) [66]June 7, 2023

  On Wednesday, the air quality near Jackson had slipped into the red
  “unhealthy” zone, according to [67]AirNow, which tracks particle
  pollution nationwide.

  Conditions were not much better throughout the rest of New Jersey as
  smoke from [68]wildfires raging in Canada blanketed much of the region.

  Residents were advised to limit their time outdoors Wednesday and
  Thursday, particularly those with heart or lung disease.

  “A little bit of caution isn’t necessarily bad coming on the heels of
  the pandemic,” said Dr. Eric Costanzo, director of pulmonary critical
  care at Hackensack Meridien Jersey Shore University Medical Center.

  Inhaled particulate matter can cause an “inflammatory cascade,” he
  said, leading airways to constrict. This, in turn, can cause coughing,
  wheezing and shortness of breath, he said.

  “It’s reasonable to be adhering to the warnings,” he added.

  The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey took the unusual step of
  closing several of its container terminals at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. “Due
  to wildfires there is poor visibility,” the Port Authority [69]wrote on
  Twitter. “Please drive with care.”

  And in a practice that has become more common on the West Coast, where
  [70]recent studies show summertime [71]air quality has been degraded by
  wildfires, many schools in New Jersey postponed sports activities and
  outdoor celebrations scheduled for Wednesday.

  One of the practices canceled was in Bergen County, in northern New
  Jersey. High school seniors preparing for next weekend’s [72]all-star
  football game were told early Wednesday that their 4 p.m. practice had
  been called off as the state braced for the air quality to get even
  worse by late afternoon and evening.

  For Dennis Hard, who has been coaching football for 43 years, it was a
  first.

  “This is really weird,” said Mr. Hard, who is retiring and expects next
  Saturday’s all-star game to be his last. “I can’t blame them for being
  careful.”
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  June 7, 2023, 3:10 p.m. ET
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  Gregg Vigliotti
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  Orchard Beach in the Bronx, which is often filled with people from
  throughout the city, was all but empty Wednesday, as smoke from
  wildfires in Canada inundated the city.
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  Credit...Gregg Vigliotti for The New York Times
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  Credit...Gregg Vigliotti for The New York Times
  Jesus Jimenez
  June 7, 2023, 2:59 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:59 p.m. ET

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  New York City zoos will close early at 3 p.m. today “out of concerns
  for our staff, visitors and animals,” according to the Wildlife
  Conservation Society, which oversees the zoos.
  June 7, 2023, 2:55 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:55 p.m. ET

  Campbell Robertson
  Reporting from Washington, D.C.
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  The air quality alert in Washington, D.C., didn’t stop families,
  couples and brand new high school graduates from posing for photos in
  front of the Washington Monument, which came already Instagram-filtered
  in the midday haze. Some were already familiar with the peculiar air.
  “We came from Minnesota; we’ve had this for three weeks,” said Barbara
  Sanborn, 61, after a group shot. “It keeps the heat down a bit.”
  Asmaa Elkeurti
  June 7, 2023, 2:44 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:44 p.m. ET

  Asmaa Elkeurti
  (BUTTON)

  At 2 p.m., the air quality index in the New York City region was 324 –
  the worst since the Environmental Protection Agency began recording air
  quality measurements in 1999. It shattered the previous record of 174,
  set on Tuesday. The region’s previous highest reading, 167, [73]was
  recorded on July 7, 2002, as smoke from another rash of Canadian
  wildfires drifted south over the area.
  Jeff Mays
  June 7, 2023, 2:43 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:43 p.m. ET

  Jeff Mays
  (BUTTON)

  With less than two weeks left until the June 27 primary election in New
  York City, candidates are out trying to meet as many voters as
  possible. In Harlem, Yusef Salaam, who is running for a seat on the
  City Council, canceled an outdoor endorsement news conference and a
  couple of planned subway canvassing events because of the heavy smoke.
  “Today was one of those days where we said health is wealth,” said
  Salaam. “In a community with high rates of asthma, you don’t want to
  get anyone sick.” Instead, he visited a community center for older
  adults in East Harlem where many of the visitors wore masks and said
  they planned to spend most of the day indoors.
  Emma Fitzsimmons
  June 7, 2023, 2:43 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:43 p.m. ET

  Emma Fitzsimmons
  Reporting from New York
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  Lincoln Restler, a City Council member from Brooklyn, criticized Mayor
  Eric Adams’s response to the smoke in New York City on Wednesday
  afternoon. Restler argued that 36 hours into the emergency, the mayor
  had “not taken a single proactive step to protect New Yorkers” other
  than suspending outdoor school activities. He urged the mayor to
  protect vulnerable New Yorkers by deploying air purifiers and to
  encourage people to work from home.
  [74]Jesus Jiménez
  June 7, 2023, 2:41 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:41 p.m. ET

  [75]Jesus Jiménez
  (BUTTON)

[76]Some zoo animals are brought indoors to escape the smoke.

  Image
  In general, wild animals are resilient and find ways to adjust to their
  environments, said Grant Furniss, the director of wildlife care at the
  Toronto Zoo.Credit...Mike Segar/Reuters

  As air quality worsened across the Northeast on Wednesday and officials
  urged people to stay inside as much as possible, zoos brought their
  residents indoors — prioritizing some animals over others.

  At the Toronto Zoo, Grant Furniss, the zoo’s director of wildlife care,
  said that workers were eyeing the air quality levels and using that
  information to decide which animals needed to be brought indoors.

  Mr. Furniss said that animals with previous respiratory illnesses were
  among the first to be brought inside. Those animals are put in
  buildings with ventilation systems, and extra fans are set up “to try
  and get any of the smallest smoke particles moving in and out of those
  buildings as quickly as possible.”

  “We really do treat them as if they were human beings,” Mr. Furniss
  said.

  Birds are also at the top of the list, because they are more
  susceptible than other animals to poor air quality, Mr. Furniss said.

  Many of the rest of the animals, he said, are free to roam between the
  indoor and outdoor portions of their habitats.

  “But if we do see any distress in any of those animals, we bring them
  in immediately,” Mr. Furniss said.

  Despite [77]high levels of air pollution in Toronto as smoke spreads
  [78]from wildfires in Canada, Mr. Furniss said that the Toronto Zoo had
  been “pretty busy” on Tuesday and Wednesday, with hundreds of visitors
  and school groups. Workers were given N95 respirator masks if they
  needed to be outside, the zoo said.

  In upstate New York, zoos in Syracuse and Rochester, where air quality
  was also at “unhealthy” levels, closed.

  The Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester said in a statement that zoo staff
  were monitoring the air quality and that “select species” could be
  brought indoors if it worsens.

  Zoos in the New York City area opened on Wednesday, but closed early at
  3 p.m. The Wildlife Conservation Society, which oversees the city’s
  zoos, said that the zoos closed “out of concern for our staff, visitors
  and animals.”

  Carriage horse rides in New York City were suspended on Wednesday
  because of the air quality, according to Shari Logan, a Health
  Department spokeswoman.

  Mr. Furniss said that in general, wild animals are resilient and find
  ways to adjust to their environments.

  “It’s very much a scenario of being adaptable and being able to adapt
  to the situation,” he said.

  Dana Rubinstein contributed reporting.
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  June 7, 2023, 2:33 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:33 p.m. ET

  Luis Ferré Sadurní
  Reporting from Albany, N.Y.
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  Dr. James McDonald, the New York State health commissioner, said
  Central New York was experiencing the most hazardous air quality in the
  state, and urged residents “to think very carefully” about going
  outdoors. He recommended that residents wear masks and get their
  inhalers refilled, noting the haze could exacerbate asthma and increase
  the likelihood of contracting a pulmonary infection.
  Judson Jones
  June 7, 2023, 2:33 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:33 p.m. ET

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  Like an ominous Instagram filter, the skies in New York City quickly
  changed from hazy gray to deep orange as if the sun was setting in the
  middle of the day Wednesday. EarthCam’s live camera of the World Trade
  Center captured the drastic change as a dense area of wildfire smoke
  moved in.

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  [83]Sarah Maslin Nir
  June 7, 2023, 2:31 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:31 p.m. ET

  [84]Sarah Maslin Nir
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[85]Some New Yorkers hunkered down inside. Others went about their regular
routines.

  Image
  An intersection in the Bronx on Wednesday.Credit...Gregg Vigliotti for
  The New York Times

  Smoke obscured the New York City skyline on Wednesday, turning the
  outlines of buildings into ghostly silhouettes as the effect of
  wildfires in Canada continued to be felt. A campfire smell hung heavy
  over the streets, turning the sky a strange shade of taupe.

  New Yorkers tried to cope as the miasma of 150 wildfires burning 500
  miles away in Quebec blanketed the city for a second day. In Brooklyn,
  some commuters appeared to repurpose pandemic-era masks for the walk to
  the subway, then removed them once they packed into air-conditioned
  trains. In the Bronx, playgrounds were empty, their jungle gyms nearly
  obscured by the haze. In Staten Island, the Statue of Liberty was
  barely visible.

  Many New Yorkers canceled plans and simply stayed shut up in their
  homes.

  Gov. Kathy Hochul said New York had been among the worst places on “the
  entire planet” for air quality on Tuesday. She urged schools to cancel
  all outdoor activities and for people to stay inside. “The bottom line
  is this: If you can stay indoors, stay indoors.”

  Some outdoor excursions were unavoidable: When Marcus Vinicius De
  Paula, 36, an artist who lives in Dumbo, stepped outside to walk his
  golden doodle, Henry, he had been overcome with not just a headache,
  but a sense of foreboding.

  “Everything is sort of hazy and in this apocalyptic context. It’s like
  something’s not right,” Mr. De Paula said. When he took Henry out on
  for another walk, this time it was with an N-95 mask he had on hand
  from the pandemic, adding to the sense of doom. “It’s triggering,” he
  said.

  With reports saying that the smoke would grow thicker as the day wore
  on, Michael Kuehn, 48, a health care consultant, took his 4-month-old
  daughter, Niva, out in the morning before the air quality plummeted.
  [86]AirNow, an air quality data monitor, indicated that air quality
  would dip to “very unhealthy” in the later part of the day.

  In the morning, at least, the conditions seemed to have been an
  improvement over Tuesday evening, after the haze first rolled in. Mr.
  Kuehn had participated in a bike race — a decision he regretted.

  “It was not a good idea,” he said.

  While Mayor Eric Adams warned that Wednesday was “not the day to train
  for a marathon,” some New Yorkers refused to skip their exercise
  routines — and were paying for it.

  At the Central Park Tennis Center, Joe Feldman, 68, showed up on
  Wednesday morning hoping to get a game in, a mask in hand. “I know it
  was going to be a little smoky, but I didn’t know how much,” he said.
  “I felt it. I actually felt it in my lungs.”

  On a run through Crown Heights, Patrick Doerksen, 32, who works in
  communications, paused to catch his breath. “I started coughing — I’m
  like, ‘What am I doing?’” Mr. Doerksen said. “But I still just need to
  move.”

  Animal welfare advocates asked the city to suspend carriage rides, a
  tourist staple around Central Park, until air quality returned to
  normal levels. “The current toxic conditions caused by hazardous
  wildfire smoke necessitate the protection of both” humans and horses,
  Edita Birnkrant, the executive director of New Yorkers for Clean,
  Livable, and Safe Streets, an anti-carriage industry group said. Around
  midday, the city’s Health Department issued a notice to all equestrian
  businesses in the city for the animals to stop work.

  Vahid Durmic, a building superintendent in the South Bronx, said that
  air quality is regularly so bad in his neighborhood that he rarely
  opens the windows of his apartment, and uses an air filter. The blanket
  of smoke, he feared, would exacerbate already poor conditions. “There
  is a lot of asthma here,” he said. “Today is really bad.”

  A few New Yorkers shrugged off the clouds of smoke. Puffing a cigar
  while perched on a low fence on West 118 Street, Freddy DeLarosa said
  he felt nothing at all.

  “It’s not affecting me,” Mr. DeLarosa said, between puffs. “But my kids
  say it’s hard to breathe.”

  Ana Ley, Michael D. Regan, Dana Rubinstein, Sadef Ali Kully, Luis
  Ferré-Sadurní, Sean Piccoli and Olivia Bensimon contributed reporting.
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  Mitch Smith
  June 7, 2023, 2:29 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:29 p.m. ET

  Mitch Smith
  Reporting from Detroit
  (BUTTON)

  In Detroit there is a light haze and a bit of thickness to the air. But
  it is not overwhelming, the sun is visible and many people seem to be
  carrying on as normal. Natasha Tyson, a foreperson for a city blight
  removal crew working outdoors, said she had not really noticed the
  smoke. “We don’t have anything to do with Mother Nature,” she said. “We
  just do our part.”
  Jesse McKinley
  June 7, 2023, 2:29 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:29 p.m. ET

  Jesse McKinley
  Reporting from Buffalo, N.Y.
  (BUTTON)

  The hazy conditions are delaying flights into Buffalo, where the sky is
  slate gray and the light tinged with yellow.
  Luis Ferré Sadurní
  June 7, 2023, 2:25 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:25 p.m. ET

  Luis Ferré Sadurní
  Reporting from Albany, N.Y.
  (BUTTON)

  The hazy conditions in New York are likely to continue on Thursday and
  Friday, and potentially extend into the weekend, according to Basil
  Seggos, the commissioner of the New York State Department of
  Environmental Conservation. “Ultimately, this is going to continue for
  the next few days and likely into the weekend,” he told reporters on
  Wednesday afternoon. “We’ll pray for rains up north and for winds to
  shift.”
  [87]Melissa Hoppert
  June 7, 2023, 2:21 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:21 p.m. ET

  [88]Melissa Hoppert
  (BUTTON)

[89]The Belmont Stakes is still set for Saturday, for now at least.

  Image
  A horse training at Belmont Park on Wednesday. Officials are monitoring
  air quality ahead of the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes on
  Saturday.Credit...Al Bello/Getty Images

  The three-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, headlined by the third
  leg of the Triple Crown on Saturday, is still set to begin Thursday at
  Belmont Park, in Elmont, N.Y.

  Patrick McKenna, vice president for communications for the New York
  Racing Association, which operates Belmont Park, said weather services
  and on-site equipment would be monitoring the air quality at the track.

  With smoke from wildfires in Canada shrouding the New York City area,
  the projected [90]Air Quality Index for Elmont was over 150 on
  Wednesday afternoon.

  At that level, the newly created [91]Horseracing Integrity and Safety
  Authority, which is responsible for enforcing uniform safety and
  integrity rules in American thoroughbred racing, advises tracks to
  “closely monitor” their facility.

  Tracks can also decide to “limit training to jogging and/or jogging and
  gallops only and be prepared to take further action if conditions
  worsen,” according to the authority.

  If over 175, the authority recommends restricting track activity,
  including but not limited to “canceling live racing (if applicable);
  canceling official workouts; and prohibiting galloping, breezing or
  anything more strenuous than a jog.”

  There were no races scheduled at Belmont on Wednesday, but morning
  training carried on as usual. The sport has been under increased
  scrutiny after 12 horses died at Churchill Downs in recent weeks,
  including seven ahead of the Kentucky Derby, and another was euthanized
  before the Preakness Stakes in Baltimore.

  Mr. McKenna said the racing association would “continue to assess the
  overall environment to ensure the safety of training and racing
  throughout the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival.”
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  [93]Joseph Goldstein [94]Sharon Otterman
  June 7, 2023, 2:18 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:18 p.m. ET

  [95]Joseph Goldstein and [96]Sharon Otterman
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[97]What the ‘extra toxic’ air blanketing New York City means for residents.

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  Health officials warned New Yorkers to stay indoors or wear masks as
  wildfire smoke worsened air quality across the city and
  state.Credit...Ed Jones/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

  Hospitals in New York City and elsewhere across the state said they had
  not seen a major uptick in emergency room visits related to the
  hazardous air quality conditions yet, but warned that people should
  continue to take precautions to avoid breathing in too many
  contaminants.

  Dr. Ashwin Vasan, the New York City health commissioner, warned that
  the fine particulate matter in the air can “get into people’s lungs,
  cause inflammation and worsen conditions like asthma, chronic lung
  disease or underlying heart conditions.” He added that older adults and
  children were particularly vulnerable, and encouraged people to limit
  their time outdoors and to wear a high quality mask if they did go out.

  The air quality over New York City is the worst it has been in decades,
  he and other officials said. Real-time readings clocked parts of New
  York City yesterday at an Air Quality Index level [98]of over [99]225,
  which is rated “very unhealthy.”

  While the quality had improved by Wednesday morning [100]to about 170,
  that level was still considered unhealthy. By [101]1:30 p.m. the level
  had spiked again to over 235, leaving the sky over Manhattan in a
  glowing orange haze.

  Spokesmen and officials at several New York City hospitals confirmed
  that they had yet to see an uptick in emergency room visits for
  respiratory complaints. At Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New
  Hyde Park, however, there has been a “little uptick” in patients with
  headaches and coughs that appear to be consistent to exposure to the
  polluted air, said Frederick Davis, associate chair of the emergency
  department.

  He said that both people with and without underlying conditions
  appeared to be impacted. But the increase so far was manageable, he
  added, with eight patients on the roster early Wednesday afternoon
  complaining of respiratory symptoms.

  In the upstate city of Rochester, the emergency department at Strong
  Memorial Hospital, and some affiliated urgent cares, were seeing an
  uptick in patients with respiratory issues, a spokeswoman said.

  Asthma is a problem in New York, disproportionately affecting Black and
  Hispanic children and those living in poorer neighborhoods, according
  to city data. It is [102]a leading cause of pediatric hospitalizations
  in New York City. [103]About 17 percent of children under 13 in the
  Bronx had been diagnosed with asthma relative to 11 percent of children
  citywide, according to a 2021 Department of Health report.

  Long-term exposure to the fine particulate matter in wildfire smoke
  (known as PM2.5 because each particle is smaller than 2.5 micrometers
  across, [104]about one-thirtieth the width of a strand of hair) has
  also been linked to developmental problems in children and cognitive
  impairment in older adults, as well as premature labor and low birth
  weights.

  Mayor Eric Adams urged all New Yorkers to “limit outdoor activity to
  the greatest extent possible” and that “vulnerable New Yorkers should
  stay inside” and keep their windows shut.

  “This is not the day to train for a marathon or do an outdoor event
  with your children,” he said.

  Dr. Darby Jack, a professor of environmental health at Columbia
  University’s Mailman School of Public Health, said that for most New
  Yorkers, the pollution was “more of an annoyance than a crisis.”

  “For people with asthma and heart disease, it’s a bit more of a
  concern,” said Dr. Jack, who studies the long-term health effects of
  air pollution. He said that staying indoors was fine advice but that
  without a high-quality air filter, indoor air “will tend to reflect
  what’s outside.”

  “The levels are high enough that were they to persist, they would be a
  real concern, but the saving grace is that it’s a relatively short-term
  event,” he said. [105]For many people [106]around the world, he noted,
  “these exposures are literally the daily reality.”
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  June 7, 2023, 2:12 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:12 p.m. ET

  Hilary Howard
  (BUTTON)

[107]Central New York’s air quality has been the worst in the state all day.

  Early on Wednesday, some of the worst air quality readings came from
  the central New York region. In Syracuse, the air quality index, a
  measure of how safe the air is to breathe, surpassed 400 on a 0-500
  scale, according to [108]AirNow. Now Binghamton is seeing even higher
  levels.

  “This is a totally unprecedented event for the East Coast,” said Ethan
  Coffel, a climatologist at Syracuse University, who added that he was
  staying indoors today, with his air purifiers running. “There has never
  been a smoke event this widespread and this severe.”

  Mr. Coffel was referring to the traveling smoke plumes, originally from
  raging fires in Canada, that are making their way through New York and
  the Mid-Atlantic States, and currently turning New York City orange.

  These are hazardous conditions, said Mike Hardiman, a meteorologist
  with the National Weather Service in Binghamton, about 60 miles south
  of Syracuse, where air quality this afternoon clocked in at 438
  (anything over 301 on the scale is considered “hazardous”). The scene
  there “looks like Mars” and “smells like cigars,” he said.

    Upstate New York looks like Mars right now due to smoke.
    This is from [109]@NWSBinghamton.
    The sky is orange (only longer wavelengths of light penetrate the
    veil of smoke).
    Air quality indices pushing 400. Hazardous to all.
    Visibility down to just 1 mile. [110]#smoke [111]#CanadaWildfires
    [112]pic.twitter.com/RPCVk5wzUg
    — Matthew Cappucci (@MatthewCappucci) [113]June 7, 2023

  In Syracuse, “it’s incredibly hazy and it smells like burned popcorn,”
  said Robert Wilson, an associate professor in the geography and
  environment department at Syracuse University. Wednesday morning, Mr.
  Wilson, who had elected to exercise indoors at the Y.M.C.A., said the
  streetlights in a nearby parking lot were turned on, as if it were
  night time.

  Going outside makes his throat hurt and his eyes itchy, he said, and as
  an expert in climate change and outdoor activities, he is concerned
  about how increased pollutants in the air from wildfires will affect
  summer camps and other children’s activities this summer and in the
  future.

  Mr. Coffel said that he was “personally surprised” at the speed and
  severity of the changing air quality in Syracuse. But as a
  climatologist, he added, he should not have been. Increased wildfires,
  he said, are a “longstanding trend we are quite confident is driven by
  climate change.”
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  [115]Apoorva Mandavilli
  June 7, 2023, 2:06 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:06 p.m. ET

  [116]Apoorva Mandavilli
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[117]Americans have seen their share of respiratory troubles this year.

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  Commuters donned masks on Wednesday in Manhattan.Credit...Justin
  Lane/EPA, via Shutterstock

  It’s been a bad year for American lungs. There was the pandemic, of
  course, caused by a respiratory virus. Then the tripledemic, winter’s
  miserable collision of the coronavirus, respiratory syncytial virus and
  the flu. And now this: smoke from Canadian wildfires shrouding much of
  the nation.

  Have the previous waves of infection left our lungs more vulnerable to
  the latest respiratory assault? People who developed pneumonia as a
  result of a Covid or were hospitalized for myocarditis — inflammation
  of the heart muscle — or other conditions linked to the infection
  should be vigilant, said Dr. Daniel Sterman, director of pulmonary
  medicine at NYU Langone Health.

  “Any of those post-Covid serious conditions would put you at greater
  risk of complications from this wildfire smoke,” he said.

  But the smoke is more likely to be problematic for the larger
  populations of people with asthma, chronic pulmonary disease or heart
  disease, or those whose lungs have been ravaged by cancer or other
  illnesses. Children, older adults, pregnant women and those with weak
  immune systems are at [118]particular risk, according to the Centers
  for Disease Control and Prevention.

  And for people who are generally sensitive to irritants like pollen,
  pet dander or smoke, “there’s a good chance that this could affect you
  more than others,” said Dr. Scott Goldberg, director of emergency
  medical services for Mass General Brigham.

  The smoke poses less risk to everyone else. Still, Dr. Goldberg said,
  “if you start experiencing some wheezing, chest congestion, feeling of
  shortness of breath or general irritation, remove yourself from that
  environment.”

  The smoke caused by wildfires can comprise a vast array of harmful
  pollutants, from gases like carbon monoxide to lead and other toxic
  metals. The most hazardous pollutants are particles narrower than 2.5
  micrometers — roughly 50 times smaller than a grain of sand.

  Wildfire can also generate ground-level ozone, which can irritate the
  lungs, Dr. Goldberg said.

  Nose hair can trap most larger substances, including dust, pollen and
  bacteria, but smaller airborne particles can slip past those defenses
  and travel deep into the lungs. Cloth masks will not do much to prevent
  small particles from entering the airways; an N95 or equivalent offers
  the best protection.

  Air quality is measured on a scale from 0 to 500. People without risk
  factors may begin to experience symptoms when the air quality index
  reaches 150. By early afternoon on Wednesday, New York City was
  reporting an index of 235; Syracuse was over 400.

  The expert advice now? It’s not what we heard so often during the
  pandemic. “We’re just in the opposite situation right now — being
  indoors is safer,” Dr. Sterman said.
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  Jesus Jimenez
  June 7, 2023, 2:05 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:05 p.m. ET

  Jesus Jimenez
  (BUTTON)

  As a smoke plume reached New York City, making the skyline look orange,
  the air quality index has reached 235, meaning that air quality is
  “very unhealthy,” according to AirNow, which monitors air quality
  across the United States. At these levels, people with heart or lung
  disease, older adults, children and teens should avoid physical outdoor
  activities, according to AirNow.
  Joseph Goldstein
  June 7, 2023, 2:04 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:04 p.m. ET

  Joseph Goldstein
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  “I’m looking outside and it’s ominous,” Professor Jack Caravanos of NYU
  School of Global Public Health said from his office in Manhattan, as
  the air quality index in New York City worsened and reached a new high
  of 235. “It’s a scary yellow haze in the sky. No clouds. It’s like a
  lid on the city.”
  June 7, 2023, 2:02 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 2:02 p.m. ET

  [119]Troy Closson
  Reporting from New York
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[120]Schools in the Northeast cancel recess and close early as air quality
worsens.

  Image
  Public officials across the region warned schools and families to keep
  children indoors as smoke from Canadian fires worsened air
  quality.Credit...Juan Arredondo for The New York Times

  In New York City and several large cities across the state, all outdoor
  activities and field trips were canceled for students on Wednesday as
  Gov. Kathy Hochul strongly urged districts “who have not yet done so to
  follow suit.”

  In New Jersey, some districts devised plans [121]to dismiss students
  several hours early, while calling off after-school programs and
  outdoor sporting competitions.

  And in Philadelphia, teachers were asked to keep their classroom
  windows shut, while some [122]schools sent families a message that many
  had not heard in months: “Please encourage your students to mask
  today.”

  As smoke from Canadian wildfires continued to pollute parts of the
  Northeastern United States on Wednesday afternoon and raise concerns
  over how the air quality could affect children, many school districts,
  from [123]Washington, D.C. to [124]Connecticut, kept students indoors.

  Health experts [125]appealed to families to keep children indoors as
  well, particularly those who already have asthma. Young people are
  especially vulnerable when breathing in wildfire smoke, and even lower
  levels of air pollution can harm them.

  Communication was not seamless everywhere, however.

  In New York, for example, some families reported early Wednesday that
  their schools still planned to hold field trips or outdoor lunches. But
  the chancellor, David C. Banks, reiterated that those plans were not
  allowed.

  “We are in the midst of a serious situation,” Mr. Banks said. “We don’t
  want to put the health of any of our kids in jeopardy.”

  City officials asked that “special attention be made to vulnerable
  students and staff” during school hours on Wednesday. Like many cities,
  New York does not set an [126]air quality index reading that would
  automatically prompt school closure.

  When smoke conditions remain poor for longer periods, doctors encourage
  using masks for children. Their time outdoors should also be limited,
  and adults should watch for breathing troubles, fatigue or appetite
  loss.

  The flurry of cancellations disappointed some children who missed out
  on long-awaited end-of-year activities.

  At. P.S. 40, in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan, a planned
  excursion to Ellis Island was called off, to the dismay of some fourth
  graders. The school’s principal told families in an email that teachers
  and staff would “keep an extra eye on students who have asthma or other
  health issues.”

  Some schools went even further. At the Brooklyn Friends School, an
  independent school in Downtown Brooklyn, a day trip to Prospect Park
  was canceled — and administrators opted to close the entire school.

  By late afternoon on Wednesday, several charter networks and
  independent schools were still weighing whether in-person classes would
  be held on Thursday. But even if the smoke lingers, city officials will
  not face the same dilemma: Traditional public schools were already
  scheduled to be closed on Thursday and Friday.
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  June 7, 2023, 1:54 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 1:54 p.m. ET

  Daniel Victor
  (BUTTON)

  The Lower Manhattan skyline was muted from Brooklyn Bridge Park, where
  photographers marveled at the unusual scene from the waterfront. One
  couple took engagement photos that probably won’t turn out as they had
  imagined.
  [128]Niraj Chokshi
  June 7, 2023, 1:50 p.m. ET
  June 7, 2023, 1:50 p.m. ET

  [129]Niraj Chokshi
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[130]Some flights are halted or delayed as low visibility impairs air
traffic.

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  Heavy smoke from Canadian wildfires has started to affect flights in
  the New York region.Credit...Alyssa Goodman/Associated Press

  The smoke from wildfires affected flights in the northeastern United
  States on Wednesday, causing delays and leading the Federal Aviation
  Administration to briefly halt some flights into the New York area and
  slow some flights into Philadelphia.

  “The agency will adjust the volume of traffic to account for the
  rapidly changing conditions,” it said in a statement.

  Smoke can affect visibility, in similar ways to low clouds or fog.
  Pilots are able to land planes under such conditions, but extra
  precautions must be taken.

  By midafternoon, the agency had lifted its pause on some flights into
  La Guardia Airport in New York and Newark Liberty International
  Airport, but departing flights faced long delays — on average, 119
  minutes at LaGuardia and 82 minutes at Newark. The F.A.A. also said it
  had slowed flights from the East Coast and Midwest headed for
  Philadelphia International Airport because of reduced visibility caused
  by the wildfire smoke.

  Still, the broader effect on flights was limited. By midafternoon, more
  than 130 flights within the United States had been canceled, while more
  than 2,600 flights were delayed, according to data from FlightAware.
  The level of disruption is similar to that of an average day.
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[133]Here’s how to keep pets safe from wildfire smoke.

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  Credit...Angela Weiss/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

  The guidance that goes for humans also applies to pets: When the air is
  intensely polluted, limit the time your pet is outside.

  “The air we breathe, pets feel it too,” said Dr. Jerry Klein, the chief
  veterinary officer at the American Kennel Club. Older animals with
  underlying medical problems, like heart, respiratory or pulmonary
  conditions, are particularly vulnerable, he said.

  Birds are especially at risk because of the construction of their
  respiratory systems, said Meghan Rebuli, an assistant professor at the
  University of North Carolina School of Medicine who specializes in air
  pollution. Birds that are exposed to smoke may act lethargic and
  struggle to breathe; their tails may bob, and they may sit in the
  bottom of their cages. Those symptoms can manifest days or even weeks
  after exposure, Dr. Rebuli said.

  Watch out for coughing or gagging, particularly in cats, which rarely
  exhibit these behaviors. The first thing you should do is call your
  veterinarian if you see those symptoms, Dr. Klein said. If your pet is
  stumbling or acting more lethargic than usual, you should also reach
  out to your veterinarian, said Dr. Lori Teller, the president of the
  American Veterinary Medical Association. Take note if your pet seems
  unable to eat or drink.

  You should also call your veterinarian if you notice dogs and cats
  pawing at their eyes, which indicates irritation; in the meantime, you
  can saturate a cotton ball with lukewarm water and squeeze it over your
  animal’s eyes to help flush them out, Dr. Klein said. And keep an ear
  out for noisy, labored breathing, especially in certain breeds like
  pugs, which are prone to breathing difficulties. Get them to a vet as
  soon as possible.

  While indoors, keep your windows closed, Dr. Rebuli said, and you may
  want to keep pets in a room with an air purifier, like one with a HEPA
  filter.

  Make sure your pets are not exercising outside, said Dr. Teller. If you
  are stuck indoors for prolonged periods, consider playing ball with a
  dog in a long hallway, if you have the space, or using puzzle toys to
  help occupy your animal.

  You can take dogs out to relieve themselves, but keep it short. “You
  want to be in and out,” Dr. Klein said.
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  Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, just told
  reporters that the United States has deployed 600 firefighters and
  supplies, including water-bomber aircrafts, to assist Canada. She
  called the wildfires “yet another alarming example of the ways in which
  climate crisis is disturbing our lives and our communities,” and said
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[138]A Taj Mahal concert in Prospect Park was canceled as the smoke
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  A free evening of music in Prospect Park Wednesday night starring the
  blues musician [139]Taj Mahal and the singer Corinne Bailey Rae that
  had been expected to draw Brooklynites from around the borough was
  canceled because of poor air quality, event organizers said.

  The concert was to have been the opening night of [140]BRIC Celebrate
  Brooklyn, an annual free music series that fills the area around the
  Lena Horne Bandshell with picnickers on many summer nights.

  But in a statement, BRIC said that because of what it called an
  “unprecedented air quality situation in New York” it had made the
  “difficult decision” to cancel. Officials said the performances would
  not be rescheduled.

  “The health of our staff and the communities we serve is the number one
  priority for BRIC and we can’t, in good conscience, risk the well-being
  of our friends and neighbors who may have high risk health issues,” Wes
  Jackson, BRIC’s president, said in a statement.

  Vineyard Theater, an Off Broadway nonprofit theater in the Union Square
  neighborhood of Manhattan, canceled Wednesday night’s performance of
  the play “This Land Was Made,” citing “hazardous air quality
  conditions.”

  In Central Park in Manhattan, the Public Theater canceled outdoor
  rehearsals for this summer’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of
  “Hamlet” on Wednesday and were monitoring conditions as they waited to
  decide whether to go ahead with Wednesday night’s invited dress
  rehearsal, where the play was to be performed outdoors for a small
  audience of friends, family and theater staff.

  “Hamlet” is scheduled to begin preview performances at the open-air
  Delacorte Theater in Central Park on Thursday night, and a spokeswoman
  for the theater said it was too early to know whether that might be
  affected.

  A live dance performance by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
  scheduled for Wednesday evening in Times Square was also “canceled due
  to air conditions,” according to [141]the official website for Times
  Square.

  Outdoor performances at Lincoln Center begin next week, and a
  spokeswoman for the institution said that, as always, officials would
  monitor the weather carefully and make adjustments as needed.

  And the New York Philharmonic, which is scheduled to begin its outdoor
  concerts in parks around the city next week, is closely monitoring
  forecasts, a spokesman said.
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