Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll find out why the Brooklyn Bridge will look like an underwater canyon tonight. We’ll also look at how the United Auto Workers union managed to outdo the political establishment in New York.
If you go by Brooklyn Bridge Park tonight, you might wonder if you’re 100 miles away, in the Atlantic Ocean. Some visual sleight-of-hand will make the bridge “a gateway to a remarkable underwater world” — Hudson Canyon, which is as deep as the Grand Canyon, according to John Calvelli, an executive vice president of the Wildlife Conservation Society. The organization is one of the groups involved with an 18-minute video art installation about the canyon that will be projected onto the bridge. You can watch it from Emily Roebling Plaza in the park, starting at 7 p.m. The video, by the Brooklyn-based artist Anita Glesta, will be repeated until 10 p.m. It was originally scheduled to be shown again on Saturday. But the Wildlife Conservation Society has canceled tomorrow’s showing because of the Nor’easter in the forecast. Calvelli says that Hudson Canyon is one of those not-far-away-places that New Yorkers don’t know about. “You’ve got whales, sea turtles, sharks and tuna,” he said. “You’ve got commercial and recreational fishers who love that area. Our fresh fish, a lot of it, comes from Hudson Canyon.” And there are shipwrecks below the surface that date to the 19th century. Best loved from afar, he saysBut he doesn’t really want you to go there. He wants Hudson Canyon to remain pristine, or as pristine as possible. Calvelli and the New York Aquarium, which is operated by the Wildlife Conservation Society, have been pressing to have Hudson Canyon designated a federal National Marine Sanctuary, which would make it off limits to oil and gas drilling. The society nominated Hudson Canyon in 2016, and the Biden administration proposed designating it in 2022. “We’re committed to saving wildlife in wild places, but we should also care about the wildlife in our backyard,” Calvelli said. “If we’re protecting places around the world, we should be protecting this.” Conservationists have said that making Hudson Canyon a marine sanctuary would also let the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration use it to track the effects of climate change on underwater canyons, which are vulnerable to ocean acidification and oxygen depletion. The agency said in mid-2022 that the designation would be finalized after a two-month comment period. Marissa Anderson, a spokeswoman for NOAA’s National Ocean Service, said that NOAA was reviewing proposed sanctuary designations, including the one for Hudson Canyon. Calvelli is counting on the video project, “Aqua Cosmos: The Hudson Canyon,” to raise awareness. The bridge as a video screenGlesta, the artist who created the video, said that it dovetailed with earlier works she had made that had probed “beneath the surface — of memory, of the body, of the landscapes we live in.” When she heard about Hudson Canyon, she said, “it felt like another one of those revelations.” She used images from the two explorations of Hudson Canyon — a NOAA mission last year, and paintings from an expedition in the 1920s. (There were no underwater cameras then.) The display tonight won’t be the first time the bridge has been used as a video screen. Mayor Bill de Blasio marked the first anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic by projecting photographs of Covid-19 victims onto the bridge. And in August 2023, the artwork from a Rolling Stones album went up on a pier. It was a teaser for the album, “Hackney Diamonds,” the Stones’ first with original music in 18 years. The band didn’t release “Hackney Diamonds” until two months afterward. But the Stones didn’t have the city’s permission to project the image and would have been unlikely to obtain it: The NYC DOT Art program, which is run through the city’s Department of Transportation, forbids advertising or commercial branding. Like Calvelli, Glesta marveled at how close to New York Hudson Canyon was. “I thought I knew the city, but not this,” she said. Also like Calvelli, Glesta has never actually been to Hudson Canyon. For many New Yorkers, the same is true of the Statue of Liberty. But Calvelli said he has visited that landmark. “Once in my life,” he said, when relatives were in town. “In 1978. I was 13.” WEATHER Today will be mostly cloudy with a high near 71. There is a chance of rain tonight as temperatures fall near 60. A wind advisory is in effect. ALTERNATE-SIDE PARKING In effect until Saturday (Sukkot). QUOTE OF THE DAY “We are convinced that this is a transition that will happen, and we should get ready for it.” — Matt Berlin, the chief executive of a company that provides transportation for students in New York City, whose company has 28 electric buses and plans to buy hundreds more, even though electric models in other districts have been plagued by technical challenges and logistical headaches. The latest Metro news
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The United Auto Workers has done what many labor groups have not: It has grown by opening its ranks to workers in white-collar professions. My colleague Sally Goldenberg says that it has also upended the political establishment in New York City. The branch of the U.A.W. that includes New York endorsed Zohran Mamdani’s long-shot bid for mayor over Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year when Cuomo had backing from virtually every other union in New York. The U.A.W. also backed Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, who ran for an open congressional seat in Queens in the Democratic primary in June. In that race, the U.A.W. was endorsing one of its own: Valdez joined the U.A.W. in 2018, as a visual arts program assistant at Columbia University, the job she held until she was elected to the Assembly. U.A.W. Region 9A also endorsed Darializa Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist who upset Representative Adriano Espaillat in a district covering Upper Manhattan and parts of the Bronx. Espaillat had widespread backing from labor organizations, but in that race, too, the union was backing a U.A.W. member. Avila Chevalier joined when she was an investigator for public defenders. The union’s growth has led to political friction. Some of U.A.W. Region 9A’s newer leaders are members of the Democratic Socialists of America and work closely with it. At times, that relationship has led the U.A.W. to back progressive causes in divisive situations. In June, Local 7902 from Region 9A — which represents adjunct professors and graduate student workers — pressed for a resolution to cut ties between the union’s funds and Israeli bonds. Earlier versions of the resolution were struck down before they made it to a vote because they vilified defense workers represented by the union, according to several people who attention the union’s international convention in Detroit. This time, though, the measure passed, 321 to 287. METROPOLITAN DIARY Rush-hour reunion
Dear Diary: I was on an absolutely jammed, rush-hour 5 train. As it pulled into the City Hall station, two men, standing next to each other, backpack to backpack, turned to let people off. As they did, they looked at each other. Their mouths simultaneously dropped wide open and then turned into smiles. They let go of the overhead railings and hugged. “Dude,” one said. “I haven’t seen you in ages. When did you get on?” “Grand Central,” the other replied. — David Handschuh Illustrated by Agnes Lee. Tell us your New York story here and read more Metropolitan Diary here.
Glad we could get together here. See you Monday. — J.B. Davaughnia Wilson and Ed Shanahan contributed to New York Today. You can reach the team at nytoday@nytimes.com. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox.
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