By Amanda Rosa

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It’s Friday.

Weather: Mostly sunny today, rising to the mid-70s. Over the weekend it’ll stay warm, with a few more clouds and the chance of afternoon showers.

Alternate-side parking: Suspended today and tomorrow for Eid al-Fitr.

For months, New York City’s younger children have been waiting in the wings as adults and some teenagers got vaccinated against Covid-19. As of Thursday, 12- to 15-year-olds were next in line for their shots.

Young people across the country were offered the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine after an advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to recommend it for use in children ages 12 to 15 on Wednesday.

Mayor Bill de Blasio encouraged parents to get their children, members of Generation Z, vaccinated to protect their families.

“Parents, let’s get our ‘Zoomers’ off of Zoom and back to life as normal,” the mayor said.

[Read more about the children nationwide — from Seattle to New York City — who got vaccinated Thursday.]

My colleague Joseph Goldstein spoke with young people in the city as they got their first doses. Here’s what they had to say:

Julian Boyce, 14, was among the first to get vaccinated in Harlem on Thursday.

Julian’s parents wasted no time in getting him vaccinated. They quickly brought him to Harlem Hospital Center, where his father is an administrator, for his first dose.

His family knew about 20 people who had died from Covid-19, including two people in their apartment building and church members.

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