New York Today: Where to Cheer, or Cry, During the World Cup

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Good morning on this heated Friday.

If you hear bursts of pained shrieks alongside thunderous cheers this weekend, don’t be alarmed: The World Cup has reached the round of 16, the knockout stage.

Lose once, and your team is out.

We recently spoke with a few influential soccer fans in New York about their teams and where in the city they’ll be watching the matches.

Uruguay

Gabriela Hearst, a fashion designer and model turned designer, is all in for La Celeste — the Sky Blue, as Uruguay’s national team is known.

“Soccer for Uruguay is a religion,” she said. “We are a very small country of three million people, but with an important soccer history and great team.”

She plans on watching matches at one of New York’s few Uruguayan restaurants: Charrúa, on the Lower East Side, and Tabaré, in Brooklyn. “I will be eating, cheering, laughing and hopefully not crying,” she said.

Because she’s a fashion designer, we had to ask her what she’ll be wearing. “One color only: La Celeste.”

England

Bradley Wright-Phillips, an Englishman who joined the Red Bulls in 2013, likes England’s chances in this World Cup. “I’m always optimistic,” he said.

On Saturdays during the English Premier League season, Mr. Wright-Phillips enjoyed watching matches at the Hoboken sports bar Mulligan’s, as well as the Ashford, a cocktail bar that recently opened in Jersey City. He’ll most likely catch a few World Cup matches here, when the Red Bulls aren’t traveling.

He has a few favorites to win, but he’s also rooting for the squad that comes out of nowhere, as Costa Rica did in 2014, Mr. Wright-Phillips said. “There’s always one team who just surprises you.”

Matches resume on Saturday, when France plays Argentina at 10 a.m. and Uruguay takes on Portugal at 2 p.m. On Sunday, Russia faces off against Spain at 10 a.m., and Croatia plays Denmark at 2 p.m.

Belgium

Austin Brown, singer and guitarist for the Brooklyn band Parquet Courts, told us that “total football” was the strategy of the Dutch in the 1970s, in which every player could play any position at any time.

Mr. Brown will probably watch the final match of the World Cup in England, the day after the band appears at the Latitude festival in Suffolk.

“People in England, it’s part of their personality,” he said. He does, however, look forward to being in New York for part of the tournament.

“It’s a really great moment to be a New Yorker, where you’re surrounded by a huge international community,” he said. “The World Cup is kind of the best celebration of that.”

For recommendations of the most interesting places to watch the World Cup in the city, check out our guide.

Here’s what else is happening:

It’s really, really hot.

The mercury is rising and will take us into the 90s and beyond for the next few days.

Today’s high is 91.

There’s a chance that the heat index could jump as high as 105 on Sunday. So we suggest installing your air conditioner, if you haven’t already, and looking for a cooling center, an outdoor pool or other ways to keep the temperature down in your house.

• After Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unseated one of the state’s most powerful Democrats, progressive activists wonder who’s next. [New York Times]

• Joseph J. Lhota, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, was given permission to hold outside jobs, according to a released email. [New York Times]

• A partnership led by Charles Kushner filed a lawsuit claiming Jersey City blocked development out of “political animus” toward his family and President Trump. [New York Times]

• Representative Joseph Crowley’s loss was the end of an era: He was perhaps the last of the party bosses. [New York Times]

• Ivana Trump, the first of the president’s three wives, has kept out of the spotlight since the 2016 election. But she said she still talks to Mr. Trump. [New York Times]

• A former student at Columbia University who became an Islamic State recruit was given a second chance by a Brooklyn judge. [New York Times]

• A feud over a so-called millionaire’s tax is threatening a government shutdown in New Jersey. [New York Times]

• In “About New York,” the columnist Jim Dwyer tells us about a lawsuit that claims that students at small high schools, many of them black and Latino, don’t have equal access to sports teams. [New York Times]

• Voter turnout in New York increased in Tuesday’s primary elections, but it’s still underwhelming. [WNYC]

• Mayor Bill de Blasio is going on vacation in Canada next week. [New York Post]

• The city clarified that e-bikes and throttle-controlled battery-powered bikes, many used by delivery workers, are still not legal. [Gothamist]

• The New York Times’s architecture critic visited Coney Island’s latest attraction, “Ocean Wonders: Sharks!” at the New York Aquarium. “Go see it,” he said. [New York Times]

• Today’s Metropolitan Diary: “Soft Landing”

• For a global look at what’s happening, see Your Morning Briefing.

• Broadway in the Boroughs brings performances from “Once on This Island” and “Beautiful” to Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens. Noon. [Free]

• Community Fridays offers paddling, fitness classes, cooking demonstrations and a screening of “Spiderman: Homecoming” at the Concrete Plant Park by the Foodway in the Bronx. 4 p.m. [Free]

• The Met’s summer recital series take opera arias outdoors to the Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, Queens. 7 p.m. [Free]

• An evening of contemporary dance by Mindy Jackson, NOW Dance Project and Peridance Contemporary Dance Company in Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan. 6 to 8 p.m. [Free]

• A screening of the film “Garçon!” at the WNYC Transmitter Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. 8:30 p.m. [Free]

• Yankees host Red Sox, 7:05 p.m. (YES). Mets at Marlins, 7:10 p.m. (SNY). New York Liberty host Chicago Sky, 7:30 p.m. (MSG+).

• Watch “The New York Times Close Up,” featuring The Times’s Mara Gay and other guests. Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 1:30 p.m. and Sunday at 12:30 p.m. on CUNY-TV.

• Alternate-side parking remains in effect until July 4.

• Weekend travel hassles: Check subway disruptions and a list of street closings.

Saturday

• Inhale the salty sea air during a beachfront yoga class at Beach 108th Street in Rockaway Beach in Queens. 8:15 a.m. [Free]

• See the sharks at the new exhibition “Ocean Wonders: Sharks!” at the New York Aquarium at Coney Island in Brooklyn. 10 a.m. [$14.95]

• The International African Arts Festival features performers, films and art at Commodore Barry Park in Downtown Brooklyn. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Through July 4. [$5 suggested donation]

• Bug Day features talks, demonstrations and live bugs, of course, at the New York Hall of Science in Corona, Queens. Noon to 4 p.m. [$16]

• Tour the radical history of Alphabet City, beginning at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space in the East Village. 3 p.m. [$20]

• Mets at Marlins, 4:10 p.m. (WPIX). Yankees host Red Sox, 7:15 p.m. (FOX). New York City F.C. at Chicago Fire, 8 p.m. (YES).

Sunday

• Kayak around Page Avenue Beach in Staten Island. 11 a.m. [Free]

• Sample the food at Smorgasburg in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. [Free]

• An evening of classical music from the Jackson Heights Orchestra at Rory Staunton Field in Jackson Heights, Queens. 4 p.m. [Free]

• Music, dancing, performances and a parade are part of the art exhibition “River Rising/Sube el Rio” at Starlight Park in the Bronx. 6 p.m. [Free]

• Mets at Marlins, 1:10 p.m. (SNY). New York Red Bulls host F.C. Dallas, 6 p.m. (UniMas). New York Liberty at Chicago Sky, 6 p.m. (MSG+). Yankees host Red Sox, 8:08 p.m. (ESPN).

• For more events, see The New York Times’s Arts & Entertainment guide.

Fans of Germany in New York City are getting a double dose of bad news this week.

The German team — and reigning champion — was knocked out of the World Cup this week and the 116-year-old German bakery Glaser’s Bake Shop in Yorkville is closing this weekend.

That means it’s the last call for Danish pastries, black-and-white cookies and “bunny bread” — coffee cake shaped like a rabbit and with an egg baked into it — at the bakery.

The shop is in German Town, an enclave of Germans and German businesses on the Upper East Side.

Many of the recipes for the pastries at Glaser’s date back to the shop’s founding, in 1902. It was opened by a German immigrant and baker, John Herbert Glaser, whose grandson Herb runs the shop now. (Herb is closing the shop because he’s retiring.)

“This is the place you had to go on Sunday to pick up a pastry or cream puff for your coffee,” said Mike Jimenez, 67, who braved the midday sun yesterday to stand in the shop’s line that snaked down the block. Mr. Jimenez grew up in Yorkville and has been coming to the bakery since the 1970s, he said. But it wasn’t just the high-quality crumb cake, banana cream pies and éclairs that drew him there.

“They’ve put a lot of smiles on a lot of people’s faces over the years,” he said.

The shop will close its doors on Sunday.

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