New Yorkers: It Might Be Time to Get Yourself an Air-Quality App
Wildfire smoke has traveled to the city from as far as Oregon. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Here’s something that I, an Angeleno, never thought I’d do while visiting New York: When I woke up this morning to the flat light of a post-apocalyptic orange sun bobbing in a putty-colored sky, I fired up the air-quality app that I use at home. Just as I guessed: Haze from wildfires in the West has once again traveled across the entire continent — a distance of nearly 3,000 miles — to blanket the Eastern U.S. Red sun rising this morning … view from the #EastVillage pic.twitter.com/NuCweIs5NQ—...