The latest COVID vaccine: When and where to get it

Plus: Enforcement blitz on MTA bus fare evasion [View this email in a browser.]( Gothamist relies on your support to make local news available to all. Not yet a member? [Consider donating and join today.]( [When and where can New Yorkers get the latest COVID vaccine?]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter is curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: 🥵 Partly sunny this morning, then a chance of thunderstorms later with [a heat advisory in effect]( — expect highs in the mid 90s and heat index values up to 101. It's Wednesday in New York City, where it's time to get boosted. By early September, pharmacies and doctors' offices expect to have fresh doses of the vaccine designed to protect against KP.2, the latest variant of COVID-19. Here's what to know about [getting the shot and staying protected this fall](. And here's what else is happening: - Officials from the NYPD and MTA said they're launching a fare enforcement crackdown today on [bus routes deemed to be "egregious" hot spots]( for fare evasion. - Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine is urging TikTok, Facebook and Craigslist to get rid of [black markets selling "ghost plates"]( that drivers use to evade tolls. - [Newly unveiled text messages]( show NYPD officers responding to a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Mott Haven encouraged one another to "HAVE FUN" and "Kick their a—" before police beat, pepper-sprayed and arrested hundreds of people. - Bridget Anne Kelly, a former aide to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie who was implicated for her role in the Bridgegate scandal, [excoriated former Christie attorney Randy Mastro]( yesterday during a New York City Council hearing on his nomination to be the city’s top attorney. - During his hearing, Mastro said [he'd recuse himself from a variety of cases]( involving past clients who've been fighting to upend key city-backed policies, such as building emissions restrictions, rent regulations and congestion pricing. - "Three years ago today, former Governor Cuomo resigned in disgrace. Yet his name is still on the Tappan Zee Bridge!": Republican Rep. Mike Lawler, who's running for reelection in a competitive Hudson Valley district, appears to be attacking the wrong Gov. Cuomo with [his push to rename the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge](. - One-third of the [requests for medical care for detainees]( at Rikers Island went unfulfilled last year, according to a new government report. - Savvy commuters know the AirTrain has effectively been free to ride since October, when [the Port Authority botched the installation of OMNY tap-to-pay readers]( at select turnstiles. - Congrats to the Central Park coyote on [finding an apparent romantic partner]( after four years of prowling solo. - An 18-year-old Long Island man who was arrested for walking through a residential Long Island neighborhood while allegedly carrying a knife and wearing a ski mask has become [the first person charged under a new Nassau County mask ban](. - Mayor Adams said yesterday that [he's not ready to implement a ban]( on cell phones in city schools because he first needs to get parents on board. - The mayor also said yesterday [he's offering $1,000 of his own money]( to catch the wrong-way driver who hit and killed a groom on the Henry Hudson Parkway the night before his wedding and then fled the scene on foot. - Dozens of people were evacuated off a ferry headed from Wall Street to Jersey City yesterday after [a fire broke out on board](. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might have broken a federal conservation law years ago when, according to his daughter, he [cut off the head of a beached whale with a chainsaw]( and transported it from Cape Cod to New York on the roof of the family car. - Good to see Michael Cyril Creighton, long [a budding That Guy]( get a recurring role on "Only Murders in the Building." - They're turning part of Park Avenue [into a park](. - They're turning the Flatiron Building [into luxury condos](. - Doing it over the phone is [a great way to avoid STIs](. [“You hire [Mastro] when you need to threaten or scare someone or when you need to take someone down for your own political security.”]( - Bridget Anne Kelly, a former aid to Gov. 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