Early Addition: Cannibal frog

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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where you could one day get on a very fast train to Boston .

Here's what else is happening:

• A former inmate at Sing Sing Correctional Facility explains what it was like sitting in a windowless metal cell during a heat wave with no air-conditioning — a situation that persists at most New York prisons to this day.
• Many of New York City's homeless shelters also lack air-conditioning .
• And then there are the subway cars with no air-conditioning .
• The New York Post reports that Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani , a Democratic Socialists of America member who was first elected in 2020, is considering a 2025 mayoral run .
• A 21-year-old neo-Nazi from Georgia (the country) has been charged in the U.S. for allegedly plotting to have an associate dress up as Santa Claus in New York City and hand out poisoned candy to Jewish children .
• Good news out of a new Barnard College study: Trees are growing at a faster-than-average rate in city neighborhoods that are most at risk during extreme heat waves.
• A spade-toothed whale — a species so rare that nobody has ever spotted one alive — washed up dead on a New Zealand shore earlier this month.
• In nearby Australia, female green frogs are cannibalizing their would-be male suitors who can't sing well enough.
• And finally, had to check: