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New York Today: Central Perks

The jungle is not entirely concrete.Credit...Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times

Good morning on this toasty Tuesday.

You’re back in the city after a long weekend of lobster rolls and sweet sunshine, with sand still lodged between your toes.

And now, perhaps, you’re stuck in a cubicle, missing Mother Nature.

We feel your pain.

Allow us to suggest Central Park as an antidote.

With June upon us, we’ve found a host of events coming to every corner of the park, and though they can’t quite mimic the sound of waves hitting the shore, they might still elicit a smile.

Today: Learn about the art of the park — its vistas, its landscape and its design — on a tour led by Central Park Conservancy guides. 11 a.m. [$15]

Wednesday: Families can enter a lottery to camp out overnight next Saturday, June 11, with urban park rangers. The lottery opens at midnight on June 1.

Thursday: Watch performers from “Hamilton,” as well as from “Aladdin,” “Matilda,” and other productions, compete in Broadway Show League softball games at the Heckscher Ballfields, near Tavern on the Green. 11:30 a.m. [Free]

Friday: Visit the Hallett Nature Sanctuary, a “secret section” of the park that only recently reopened to the public. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday: SummerStage, a performing arts festival, kicks off with a night of jazz featuring McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter and others. 5 p.m. [Free]

Sunday: Picnic while listening to Beatles tunes played live at Strawberry Fields, not far from the Dakota apartment building where John Lennon lived.

And here are some more events and things to see and do around Central Park through the summer.

Here’s what else is happening:

No one will take your sunshine away — at least not for the rest of the week.

It’s another sizzling, golden day in the city, with baby-blue skies and a high near 84.

Tell your boss: Suits out, swimsuits in. Coffee out, piña coladas in.

Behind the cheery facades of ice cream trucks simmer bitter turf wars between Mister Softee and New York Ice Cream. [New York Times]

The rapper Troy Ave was formally charged with attempted murder in last week’s fatal shooting during a concert at Irving Plaza. [New York Times]

Buskers at the Strawberry Fields memorial to John Lennon in Central Park seem to have made peace after years of fighting. [New York Times]

Zika update: Doctors are advising pregnant women to use condoms or to forgo sex if their partner has visited areas affected by the virus. [New York Times]

The city has struggled to make good on a promise to develop a park along the Bushwick Inlet, and now a competing proposal has arisen. [New York Times]

Scoreboard: Mets wash White Sox, 1-0. Blue Jays deafen Yankees, 4-2.

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

Piano in Bryant Park brings live ragtime, stride and jazz music to the park’s Upper Terrace, just in time for your lunch break. 12:30 p.m. [Free]

Enjoy cocktails and conversation with the civil rights activist Vernon Jordan and the historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. at the Brooklyn Historical Society. 6:30 p.m. [$100]

A former White House chef, William Yosses, discusses “eating for health, love, sex and death,” with notable food authors, at the Half King in Chelsea. 7 p.m. [$12]

Take the children to watch penguins dance in “Happy Feet,” a movie under the stars at St. Mary’s Park in the Bronx. 7:30 p.m. [Free]

Laugh away postholiday blues at Harold Night, an evening of improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Chelsea. 7:30 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. [$5]

Yankees at Blue Jays, 7:07 p.m. Mets host White Sox, 7:10 p.m.

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

Subway and PATH

Railroads: L.I.R.R., Metro-North, N.J. Transit, Amtrak

Roads: Check traffic map or radio report on the 1s or the 8s.

Alternate-side parking: in effect until June 12.

Ferries: Staten Island Ferry, New York Waterway, East River Ferry

Airports: La Guardia, J.F.K., Newark

Those of you who fled the city this weekend will have been away for what is often one of our most beautiful nights of the year: Manhattanhenge.

The phenomenon occurs when the sun sets in perfect alignment with the numbered streets stretching east and west on the city’s grid.

A red-orange-golden light is usually cast on our mostly gray-silver-neutral sidewalks and buildings.

But thanks to hazy skies during what was a sweltering weekend, you didn’t miss much.

There’s always next time, though: More Manhattanhenge comes our way on July 11 and 12.

Also on July 12, the American Museum of Natural History will host a program at the Hayden Planetarium about the history and the astronomy behind Manhattanhenge, guided by the astrophysicist Jackie Faherty.

You can buy tickets here.

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