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Taylor Jones went to work on Thursday and did not go home.

She and a colleague spent the night inside a 325-square-foot apartment at the Museum of the City of New York.

The apartment is the centerpiece of “Making Room,” an exhibit inspired by a city contest to design micro-apartments to help ease the perpetual housing crunch.

Through the weekend, people will be staying in the apartment, which features multipurpose furnishings like a Murphy bed that pulls down over a sofa and an ottoman that hatches four dining stools, to show visitors how it might feel as a home. (See video.)

We gave Ms. Jones, 20, an intern at the museum, a wake-up call at 5 a.m.

“I actually could see myself living here,” she reported groggily after padding out to the hallway so as not to wake her roommate.

Then she considered the clutter factor in a place where everything folds up or pulls down.

“It might be the messiest apartment anyone ever lived in,” she said.

The museum opens at 10 a.m., and she’ll be there until 6 p.m.

Then a couple move in for 24 hours. They plan to have a dinner party for eight. Somehow.

Got war stories of small-apartment living? Share them in the comments or via Twitter with hashtag #nytoday.

Here’s what you need to know for Friday and the weekend.

WEATHER

Sunny today with a high around 82. Mostly sunny on Saturday. Mostly cloudy Sunday, but still a bit sunny. We are hanging on to this nice weather. In fact, there is no significant chance of rain for the next 10 days, the forecast says.

TRANSIT & TRAFFIC

• Mass Transit: Click for latest M.T.A. status.

• Roads: Click for traffic map or radio report on the 1s.

Alternate-side parking is in effect.

COMING UP TODAY

• About 400 swimmers will circumnavigate Liberty Island.

• In the mayoral race, William C. Thompson Jr. unveils his transportation plan. Anthony D. Weiner explains why police officers should wear body cameras.

• The city will file a notice of appeal in the federal ruling against its stop-and-frisk policies.

• The rapper Macklemore, of “Thrift Shop” fame, greets early risers with an 8 a.m. show at Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield (thank “Good Morning America”). [Free]

• A Sprinklerfest at Snug Harbor on Staten Island features, what else, dozens of open sprinklers, and other water activities. 1 to 4 p.m. [Free]

• The last Free Friday Family Jam of the season at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum includes Afro-Haitian dancing and drumming in adjacent Brower Park. 4 to 7 p.m. [Free]

• Ease into the weekend with evening outdoor yoga to live music in the garden of Flushing Town Hall in Queens. 7 p.m. [$5 suggested donation, B.Y.O. mat]

• A screening of Joss Wheedon’s “Serenity” followed by a discussion of “Science Fact Vs. Fiction” and, cloud cover permitting, stargazing at Columbia University’s Pupin Hall. 7 p.m. [Free]

• The choreographer Francesca Harper presents “Modo Fusion: Art Prototype,” an exploration of beauty pageants “using a surreal blend of original dance, music, film and narration,” at East River Park. Open dance class at 7 p.m. Performance at 8 p.m. [Free]

IN THE NEWS

•The latest mayoral poll shows a statistical dead heat between Bill de Blasio, Christine C. Quinn and Mr. Thompson. [New York Times]

• Darius McCollum, a transit-obsessed man with Asperger syndrome, famed for stealing subway trains, was sentenced to up to five years for stealing a bus. [Daily News]

• Jasper Johns’s longtime assistant was charged with stealing 22 of his artworks. [ New York Times]

• In other art crimes, a painter from Queens created forgeries of the likes of Pollock, de Kooning and Rothko that sold for a combined $80 million, prosecutors said. [New York Times]

• New York State’s response to a court order to stop putting seriously mentally ill inmates in solitary confinement was to classify fewer inmates as seriously mentally ill. [ProPublica]

• “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” on Broadway was canceled mid-show when a dancer’s leg got caught in mechanical equipment. [New York Times]

• With decriminalization of marijuana a talking point in the mayor’s race, Politicker found that at least six of the candidates have inhaled.

• All-weather United States Open tennis is coming to the Arthur Ashe Stadium complex — it’s getting a retractable roof, maybe two. [New York Times]

• Mets snap three-game losing streak, beating Padres, 4-1. Yanks snap four-game winning streak, losing to Angels, 8-4.

SATURDAY

• Last chance to catch Summer Streets, in which seven miles of thoroughfares (including the Park Avenue car tunnel) turn into playways. [Free]

• Macklemore would approve: thrift stores offer discounts on their inherently discounted wares for National Thrift Store Day. Here’s a map.

• Harlem Week festivities include demonstrations by the senior-citizen synchronized swimmers of the Harlem Honeys and Bears, an outdoor dance party and a screening of Spike Lee’s documentary “Jim Brown: All-American.” Continues Sunday. [Free]

• Make and fly a kite at FlyNYC, Pier 1 at 70th Street. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. [Free]

• Sand sculpting contest on the beach in Coney Island. Noon to 5 p.m. [Free]

• A suite of dances inspired by mixed drinks, called “Cocktail Hour,” will be performed by Ballets With a Twist at the Queens Library branch in Flushing. 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. [Free]

• Learn to pickle and otherwise preserve at National Can it Forward Day at the Union Square Greenmarket. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Also telecast live. [Free]

SUNDAY

• Take a guided morning nature walk in Hudson River Park near the end of Christopher Street. 9 a.m. [Free]

• As the 237th anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn approaches, take a tour of Revolution-related sites in the Cemetery of the Evergreens on the Brooklyn-Queens border. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. [Free]

• Tito Nieves, the “Pavarotti of Salsa,” performs at SummerStage in Central Park. 3 p.m. [Free]

• An afternoon of live jazz on the lawn of Manhattan’s oldest house, the Morris-Jumel Mansion uptown. 2 to 6 p.m. Also Saturday. [Free]

• Shakespeare in the Park ends its season with the last performance of “Love’s Labour’s Lost” (the musical). 8:30 p.m. [Free]

• Outdoor movie: “Grease” at Habana Outpost in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. 8 p.m. [Free]

WEEKEND STREET CLOSINGS On Saturday, Summer Streets will close down Park Avenue and Lafayette Street from 72nd Street down to the Brooklyn Bridge until 1 p.m. On Sunday, there’s an Indian parade on Madison and Park Avenues in the 20s and 30s. Click for the complete list.

AND FINALLY…

The northern red bishop looks kind of like a jazzed-up oriole with a finch’s beak. Normally, it is found in Africa, where it is native, or the Caribbean, where it has been introduced. Sometimes they are sold as pets.

Now there appears to be one in Prospect Park.

The blog Backyard and Beyond has gorgeous photos, classifying it as “an escaped — or idiot-released — exotic.”

If you want to see it, go soon. Once it loses its breeding plumage, it will resemble a drab sparrow.

Nicole Higgins DeSmet contributed reporting.

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