New York City Informer

View a slide show of photographs from the past week in New York City and the region. Subjects include the New York Aquarium, a nightclub in a Chelsea water tower and an aerial view of beachfront homes in Mantoloking, N.J. City Room

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Jets running back Mike Goodson is ready to start volunteering. Sports stories from Newsday

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Vendor vandal A man was arrested for stealing a vendor’s property from the corner of Canal St. and West Broadway on Mon., May 13. Shamale Gillian, 23, was arrested and charged with grand larceny after he was discovered to be carrying the vendor’s stolen property, police said. The vendor outside 385 Broadway spoke little English, [...]

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DIETHER BACK WITH A BLAST — SLAMS WITKOFF, BATALI: Longtime Community Board 2 member Doris Diether finally returned home to Waverly Place last Thursday after rehabbing her broken hip and broken shoulder at VillageCare on W. Houston St. She got great care at VillageCare since, she said, “I had the two best aides — Jainisha [...]

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Sunday Parking Rules in effect MONDAY Memorial Day Memorial Day weekend is upon us! This means Lower Manhattan will see monster traffic jams at area bridges and tunnels on Thursday and Friday. Hardest hit will be the Holland Tunnel approaches from Canal, Varick, and Broome Sts. The Broome St. back-up, around 4 p.m. both days, may extend all the way to Lafayette St. The [...]

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Residents near Damrosch Park, a 2.4-acre wedge in the shadow of Lincoln Center, say they want their park back. WSJ.com: Newyork Main

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It’ll be warm and rather humid again later today with most temperatures reaching the 80s. WABC-TV New York News, Weather and Traffic | New York Area News

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Not in-Spire-ational To The Editor: I don’t find anything ceremonial about the topping of a spire of a building that was hardly liked by the people (Posted DowntownExpress.com, May 2, “Last spire piece reaches top of 1 W.T.C.— assembly required”). Not only is this so-called One World Trade Center truly not the tallest building in [...]

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Fruit Wars: For most of the last six years, vendors have sold fruit from a cart parked on the northwest corner of Albany St. and South End Avenue. But on the night of May 15, the fruit stand had been replaced by a table holding a petition and a board displaying handwritten signs, many of them [...]

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There could be a spotty thunderstorm at any time. WABC-TV New York News, Weather and Traffic | New York Area News

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Commuters in Connecticut who count on Metro North are going to have a tough week ahead of them. WABC-TV New York News, Weather and Traffic | New York Area News

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New York’s annual digital confab is set to kick off Monday, as Internet Week sweeps through the city, highlighting the the Big Apple’s leading role in tech and online culture. amNewYork’s Urbanite

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SWEENEY’S ANTI-BIKE-SHARE JIHAD: The New York Times, catching up to the bike-share backlash story, bit on a quote we reported in our article in last week’s issue on the Community Board 2  “bike-share outrage” forum. The Times, in its article this Wednesday, referred to a community member who slammed Citi Bike at the forum as [...]

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Watch a slide show of photographs from the past week in New York City and the region. Subjects include vintage trains in Grand Central Terminal, security at the World Trade Center and an oversize sandwich at Katz’s Delicatessen. City Room

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Dance of the bike-share protest To The Editor: Re “Bike-share backlash” (editorial, May 2): I didn’t even know there was any public art going on in Petrosino Square before two bike racks got put there. But now that the racks are there, strangely, there still is room for this woman to do her 10 days [...]

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